If you are caught speeding in Nottingham from today there is now an alternative to points on your licence. 
A course for drivers who have been caught speeding is being launched in Nottingham today.
The course will be for people caught speeding and will be an alternative to points.
This type of course is available in many parts of the country but until today was not available in Nottingham.
It is estimated that as many as 15,000 motorists a year will take the half-day course, which looks into why people speed and the consequnces of speeding
Guidelines vary across the country as to whether motorists are eligible for the speed awareness course. Generally it is available for people who have no points on their licence and who were only slightly over the speed limit.
Drivers will have the option of going on the course which means they will not have any points put on their licence.
Right but about £120 into the coffers too. Why do people speed?
1) Because there are speed limits.
2) Because most of those limits are too low and arbitrary
3) Because in most cases no good reason has been advanced for the limit.
Physics would not support the notion that the act of exceeding a number on a pole will cause an accident any more than not to exceed it won’t.