Postcodes with the worst drivers listed – 10,000 holding six or more points in one area


Bradford has the worst drivers in the UK with residents overwhelmingly carrying more penalty points on their driving licence than anywhere else in the country.

Of the 350,000 licence holders, a staggering 11,278 drivers have six or more points on their licence.

The figures mean that a whopping one in every 31 drivers is halfway to being banned from the roads.

The BD8 postcode district has 698 drivers with six or more penalty points on their licence.

This covers around one in every 20 drivers in the Girlington, Manningham, and Lower Grange areas of the city.

Five percent of drivers in the BD3 region – covering Barkerend, Bradford Moor, and Thornbury – also have at least six points.

One in 21 drivers have met the threshold in the BD9 district with one in 22 drivers in BD1, BD4, BD5 and DA18.

Two nearby northern areas also have sky-high rates with Leeds and Halifax among the highest in the nation. One in every 34 drivers have at least six points in Leeds with one in 20 affected around the LS9 postcode.

One of the poshest boroughs in London has a slightly higher rate than Bradford with one in 11 affected in the W1C postcode covering Oxford Street.

However, with just 22 motorists registered in the area, it means only two road users are affected. On the other side of the scale, the ZE postcode is the safest with just one in every 212 road users having at least six penalty points.

ZE, known as the Lerwick postcode area, is a collection of three districts covering the Shetland Islands in Scotland.

KW, a gaggle of 16 postcode districts covering Caithness and the Orkney islands is next with just one in every 130 drivers with the points.

Meanwhile, the HS postcode in the Outer Hebrides has just one motorist above six points in every 120 holders. Oldham is the home of Britain’s worst individual driver with one licence holder carrying a staggering 136 points on their driving licence.

Another motorist in the WR4 postcode in Worcester has a massive 102 points, the second-highest figure in the UK.

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