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MS90 : failure to give information as to identity of driver
Checked 17 July 2026 · How we check our figures
What it means
MS90 is the code for silence: not the speeding, but the unanswered question of who was driving. It is a flat 6 where the speeding it shadows would usually have been 3, and it survives the underlying allegation, which lapses on its own clock while the failure to answer stands alone. No course reaches it, and the only softening is the ordinary guilty plea reduction. It is the one entry a person can collect without ever having driven the car.
Points and how long it stays
6 points.
On the licence for 4 years from the date of the offence.
The MS codes are the register's junk drawer, offences that share a letter rather than a statute: dangerous parking (MS10, s. 22 RTA 1988), unlawful pillions (MS20, s. 23), the street-games relic MS30 with the table's only 2 points, racing on the highway (MS50, s. 12, where the ban is obligatory), the eyesight pair MS70 and MS80 under s. 96, the residual box MS60, and the family's heavyweight MS90, failing to name the driver, 6 points and a page of its own. Most of the family runs flat 3s on the 4-year offence clock (gov.uk, checked 2026-07-22), which makes it easy to underestimate: the drawer's contents count towards totting exactly like everything else. The arithmetic sits in the penalty points calculator at /fines/penalty-points.
The usual route
There is no roadside ticket for this code; it arrives through a court after the section 172 request goes unanswered.
If it goes to court
The conviction carries 6 points and an income-banded fine; the request-and-reply mechanics sit in the section 172 guide.
Read next
Guide: Single justice procedure →
Calculator: the code decoder, every code on the official list →
Authority
gov.uk, Penalty points (endorsements), checked 2026-07-17