Do you Have to Declare a Traffic Offence on Your UCAS Application?

Hi guys!

On the UCAS application form, there is a box which talks about unspent convictions, and you tick it if you have an unspent conviction.
Would you tick it if you have a traffic offence, such as cycling on the road but paid the fine?

Thanks!

Cycling on the road isn't a crime (unless it is a motorway). A road is where you are supposed to cycle.


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Ditto what nulli said, but if you actually have an unspent conviction for something that really is a crime, then you do need to declare it.

The uni won't care that you have a conviction for a minor traffic offence, but they will care if you lie about it / attempt to cover it up.

Oh sorry, I mean to say cycling on the pavement.

What would happen now?

Were you given a conviction officially?

What do you mean?

I was only given a fine and then told I could leave after receiving the fine.

So do you have a conviction for riding on the pavement. They would have told you if you had one.

Ditto what nulli said, but if you actually have an unspent conviction for something that really is a crime, then you do need to declare it.

The uni won't care that you have a conviction for a minor traffic offence, but they will care if you lie about it / attempt to cover it up.

No university is going to refuse to offer a place to a decent candidate for cycling on the pavement.

I'm applying for Medicine, and am worried that if they carry out a CRB check, it might appear on there, and I know how strict universities are for medicine if you fail your CRB.
Would it matter to universities for Medicine?

They are pretty strict but as far as I'm aware (and don't quote me on this) it's not a crime, merely something civil or other. Put it down if in doubt and forget about it, because no admissions tutor is going to judge you unworthy just for cycling on the pavement and having to pay a fine for it. It's not the kind of crime they are worried about!

What do you mean by that?
Thanks

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I mean if you are worried that by not putting it down, you will get into trouble, then put it down. It won't affect your admission or otherwise. However, for what it's worth, I don't think it is something you need to declare, but then I'm no lawyer. However, I will quote in someone who is for his opinion.

I'm not a lawyer for another 12 hours - and even then only a trainee! Unfortunately I'm also not experienced in this area of law, so I'm going to have to decline.

Hope you get it sorted, OP.

No university is going to refuse to offer a place to a decent candidate for cycling on the pavement.

I'm not sure, how do you find out?

I agree, but I do know someone with a visual impairment who would consider that the legal system was going soft even if the OP's head had ended up on a pole on London Bridge.




A fixed penalty notice is not a conviction and does not have to be disclosed in answer to a question about convictions. Oddly a fixed penalty notice, unlike a caution, carries no admission of guilt.

Various professional bodies may require specific disclosure of fixed penalty notices (and the Solicitors Regulation Authority, which couldn't organise the proverbial piss up in a brewery, is yet again in a complete mess about them).

On about 10 occasions a year a fixed penalty notice is disclosed on a DBS check. The reasons for these specific disclosures out of all the thousands of FPNs and thousands of DBS checks are unclear.

Thanks for the reply. So the fix penalty notice is spent immediately I presume, or am I mistaken?

Thanks!