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DD80 : causing death by dangerous driving
Checked 22 July 2026 · How we check our figures
What it means
DD80 is the gravest routine entry of the table: causing death by dangerous driving, s. 1 RTA 1988, its ceiling lifted to life imprisonment by the 2022 reforms. The family pattern holds at full weight: obligatory ban, extended retest, and 4 years on the record from conviction. Its careless counterpart is CD80, one driving standard down and a different world of sentence.
Points and how long it stays
3 to 11 points.
On the licence for 4 years from the date of conviction.
The DD family runs on one unusual rule: every code in it, DD10 to DD90, stays 4 years from the date of conviction, not the offence (gov.uk, checked 2026-07-22), the register's pattern for its gravest entries. Dangerous means far below the competent and careful standard, and obviously so, a full shelf above careless; the ladder runs s. 2 RTA 1988 for the driving, s. 1A for serious injury, s. 1 for a death, with the death ceiling lifted to life imprisonment by the 2022 sentencing reforms. Bans here are obligatory and the licence does not simply return: an extended retest stands at the end of a dangerous driving ban. The family's bookends are its curiosities, DD60 for common-law manslaughter at the wheel and DD90 for furious driving under an Act of 1861. The courtroom money mechanics, where they matter at all, sit in the fine bands guide at /fines/guides/fine-bands.
The usual route
Nothing here is dealt with by penalty notice; the case is charged and heard.
If it goes to court
Since the 2022 sentencing reforms the ceiling of s. 1 RTA 1988 is life imprisonment, with a lengthy obligatory ban and an extended retest; the endorsement is the record entry, not the punishment.
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Authority
gov.uk, Penalty points (endorsements), checked 2026-07-22