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Under the Driver Improvement Points System, demerit points may be meted out to valid Singapore Driving Licence holders when they commit certain traffic offences. They may also be offered composition fines.

Notwithstanding the above, anyone who commits a traffic offence is still liable to face the full punishment(s) that the offence carries. They may be prosecuted in court and face punishments which may include fines, imprisonment, and/or disqualification of the driving licence, depending on the severity of the offence(s).

The Courts can also take into consideration past compounded traffic offences when deciding on an appropriate sentence for errant road users.


Please visit our e-Services page to check your outstanding traffic offence(s) and/or pay the composition fines.

You may refer to the various types of traffic offences that carries demerit points and composition fines in the table below:

Traffic Offence

Demerit Points

Composition Fine

Light Vehicle

 

Vehicles classified as Class 2B/2A/2, 3C/3/3CA/3A

 

(Examples: motor cars, motorcycles, light goods van, etc.)

Heavy Vehicle

 

Vehicles classified as Class 4/4A, 5

 

(Examples: tractors, buses, trailers, etc.)

  • Stopping in a yellow box
  • Insufficient warning signals
  • Making an unauthorised U-turn
  • Vehicles with a 60km/hr vehicular speed limit failing to keep left

-

$100

$150

  • Carrying excess pillion or pillion is not sitting astride
  • Rider failing to wear a helmet or wearing a helmet insecurely
  • Disobeying traffic direction of a Police officer, employee of Authority, or security officer engaged in regulating traffic*
  • Conveying load not properly secured
  • Using tyres with ply or cord carcass exposed
  • Driver failing to wear a seatbelt or failing to ensure every passenger wears a seatbelt
  • Driver failing to ensure that a passenger below the height of 1.35 metres is properly secured by an approved child restraint or body-restraining seatbelt
  • Parking abreast of another vehicle
  • Parking within a pedestrian crossing
  • Stopping in a zebra crossing area
  • Parking within a Demerit Points No Parking Zone
  • Stopping within a Demerit Points No Stopping Zone
  • Driver failing to fill up every passenger seat in the driver’s cabin, or any additional cabin or enclosed space provided for the carriage of passengers or goods, before carrying any person on the floor of open deck goods vehicle

3

$150

$200

  • Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 1 to 20 km/hr*
  • Exceeding the road speed limit by 1 to 20 km/hr*
  • Failing to give way to oncoming traffic at controlled junction*
  • Failing to give way at an uncontrolled junction, junction, or roundabout*
  • Crossing double white lines or a road divider*
  • Obstructing the flow of traffic
  • Forming up incorrectly when turning left or right*
  • Failing to give way to emergency vehicles such as ambulances, fire brigades or Police vehicles
  • Driving in a dangerous manner while carrying load
  • Stopping on the shoulder or verge of an expressway
  • Stopping or remaining at rest on the carriageway of an expressway

4

  • Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 21 to 30 km/hr*
  • Exceeding the road speed limit by 21 to 30 km/hr*
  • Driving on the shoulder of expressways
  • Failing to securely tie or attach goods to a goods vehicle to prevent the goods from falling off
  • Offences committed by motorists at a pedestrian crossing*
  • Driving or riding against the flow of traffic as indicated by traffic signs*
  • Carrying passengers on a motor vehicle or trailer in a dangerous manner
  • Reversing unnecessarily on expressways
  • Failing to obey the 1.1 metres height restriction for persons carried on open deck goods vehicle
  • Carrying passengers when the clear floor space of the open deck goods vehicle is insufficient
  • Careless driving endangering life*

6

$200

$250

  • Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 31 to 40 km/hr*
  • Exceeding the road speed limit by 31 to 40 km/hr*

8

$300

$400

  • Carrying passengers on a goods vehicle in a dangerous manner
  • Careless driving causing hurt*

9

  • Failing to conform to traffic light signals*

12

$400

$500

  • Using mobile communication devices while driving*
  • Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 41 to 50 km/hr*
  • Exceeding the road speed limit by 41 to 50 km/hr*

12

Prosecution in court

  • Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 51 to 60 km/hr*
  • Exceeding the road speed limit by 51 to 60 km/hr*

18

  • Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by more than 60 km/hr
  • Exceeding the road speed limit by more than 60 km/hr
  • Reckless or dangerous driving

24

 

With effect from 1 July 2021, motorists who commit specified offences* at pedestrian crossings or offences that endanger pedestrian safety at School or Silver Zones will incur two additional demerit points on top of the original demerit points for the offence. In addition, the composition fines for these offences committed within abovementioned Zones will be raised by $100, subject to the total fine not exceeding $500.

 

 


Motorists who commit or exhibit irresponsible driving behaviours that endangers the lives of road users will be prosecuted in Court and face harsher penalties. This is to safeguard other road users and to ensure these offenders stay off the roads longer.

Refer to the table below to see the penalties that may be imposed by the Court.


Offence

Levels of Harm

Penalties

Disqualification (DQ)

Add-On Penalties

For Drink-Driving Offenders

First time

Offenders

Repeat Offenders

First Time Offenders

Repeat Offenders

Add-On DQ

Dangerous Driving

Causing Death

2 to 8 years imprisonment

4 to 15 years imprisonment

At least 10 years

+ 1 to 2 years imprisonment

+ 2 to 4 years imprisonment

1st Offence: At least additional 2 years;


2nd Offence: At least additional 5 years;


3rd Offence: Disqualification for Life

Causing Grievous Hurt

1 to 5 years Imprisonment

2 to 10 years imprisonment

At least 8 years

+ 6 months to 1 year imprisonment and fine of $$2,000 to $10,000

+ 1 to 2 years imprisonment and fine of $5,000 to $10,000

Causing Hurt

Up to 2 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $10,000

Up to 4 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $20,000

+ Up to 1 year imprisonment and fine of $2,000 to $10,000

+ Up to 2 years imprisonment and fine of $5,000 to $20,000.

Endangers Life

Up to 1 year imprisonment and/or fine of up to $5,000

Up to 2 years imprisonment and/or find of up to $10,000

Careless Driving

Causing Death

Up to 3 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $10,000

Up to 6 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $20,000

At least 8 years

+ Up to 2 years imprisonment

+ Up to 4 years imprisonment

Causing Grievous Hurt

Up to 2 year imprisonment and/or fine of up to $5,000

Up to 4 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $10,000

At least 5 years

+ Up to 1 year imprisonment and fine of $2,000 to $10,000

+ Up to 2 years imprisonment and fine of $5,000 to $20,000

Causing Hurt

Up to 1 year imprisonment and/or fine of up to $2,500

Up to 2 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $5,000

Endangers Life

Up to 6 months imprisonment and/or fine of up to $1,500

Up to 1 year imprisonment and/or fine of up to $3,000

Driving under Influence of drink


Up to 1 year imprisonment and/or fine of $2,000 to $10,000;

Up to 2 years imprisonment and fine of $5,000 to $20,000

1st Offence:

At least 2 years;


2nd Offence: At least 5 years;


3rd Offence:

Disqualification for life




Driving under Disqualification


Up to 3 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $10,000

Up to 6 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $20,000, and vehicle forfeited




Driving under Suspension


Up to 2 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $5,000

Up to 4 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $10,000




Driving without Valid Driving Licence


Up to 3 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $10,000

Up to 6 years imprisonment and/or fine of up to $20,000, and vehicle forfeited



 

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