The Speed Awareness course is indeed by invitation only, and will be offered only in certain cases at the lower end of the scale. I was offered the option of the course after being clocked at 36 in a 30 as my first offence. You can only do take the course once every three years for speeding offences, and once every three years for a red light offence, and only if the authorities choose to offer it. If your wife has a recent previous offence, she won't be offered the course option if it would be within the three year limit; they may also decide not to as there is a re-offending issue and they may deem that she did not 'learn her lesson'. It isn't something that anyone has a 'right' to, it's at the discretion of the authorities.

Edited by happy polo on 03/05/2011 at 21:19

These courses are being offered much more often round here as the £80 "course fee" goes into the local coffers rather then a fine which goes to central funds.

A "persistent" offender won't get the choice though.