Katie Price banned from driving for seventh time over 80mph speeding ticket
In 2021, a judge condemned Price for “one of the worst driving records I have ever seen”.
Katie Price has been banned from driving for the seventh time after failing to respond to police letters about an 80mph speeding ticket.
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The former glamour model, 47, has received bans totalling more than six years since she was first disqualified in 2010.
Her latest run-in with the law comes after a Ford Capri registered in her name was caught at 80mph on the A64 near the North Yorkshire village of Stutton.
North Yorkshire Police wrote to Price at her home in West Sussex, asking her to confirm if she was driving the speeding car.
She has now been prosecuted and convicted of failing to respond to police, landing her with a six-month driving ban and a legal bill topping £1,000.
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In December 2010, Price was banned for six months after admitting a speeding charge; she was disqualified for a year in 2012 after failing to respond to speeding tickets, and she received another six-month ban in February 2018 after being caught speeding.
In January 2019, she was in court again to admit driving while disqualified, leading to a three-month ban.
And just a month later, she was convicted by a judge of being drunk in charge of a vehicle when police saw it veer off the road and hit a grass verge.
Price claimed that a mystery man had been at the wheel and left the scene before officers arrived, but a judge concluded her evidence was “not plausible”.
Later in 2019, Price was convicted of failing to disclose the name of the driver following a car crash, which led to her receiving an 18-month road ban.
And in 2021, a judge condemned Price for “one of the worst driving records I have ever seen”, as she was given a 16-week suspended prison sentence for drink-driving while disqualified and without insurance.
Price had flipped her car and told police at the scene: “I took drugs, I should not be driving, I admit it all.”
The incident landed her with a two-year driving ban, as well as 100 hours of community service and up to 30 rehabilitation sessions.
“You appear to think you are above the law,” District Judge Amanda Kelly told her at the time.
In 2024, Price was fined £880 for driving without a licence and insurance in Northamptonshire, but she was spared a ban for those offences.
Price’s latest conviction and driving disqualification were dealt with last week in the Single Justice Procedure, a secretive court process in which magistrates handle criminal cases behind closed doors.
Court papers show Price was charged with speeding and failing to give information relating to the identification of the driver of a vehicle.
The Ford Capri was caught on a speed camera on a 70mph stretch of the A64 at 3.03pm on October 15 last year.
She was sent a police letter about the incident on October 20, and a reminder on November 10, warning her of looming criminal proceedings.
However, the police force said no response was received to either letter.
Magistrate Claire Sagar, sitting at Harrogate Magistrates’ Court last Tuesday, found Price guilty of the failure to respond to a police charge, ordering her to pay a £660 fine, £120 in costs, and a £264 victim surcharge.
Due to the secretive nature of the court process, it is not known if Price was given the chance to argue against another driving ban; it is unclear whether the court knew of her previous driving record, and the records do not reveal if she already had penalty points on her licence.
The speeding charge was withdrawn by the police.
Price, an author and reality TV star, has also found herself in the civil courts as well as the criminal courts in recent years, as she has battled through bankruptcy proceedings.
At a hearing last October, a judge told her to reduce her “extravagant pattern of expenditure” as it was revealed that almost half her monthly income would be going to pay off creditors.
Bankruptcies from 2019 and 2024 have been discharged, but she remains the subject of a court order aimed at settling her debts until February 2027.
Speaking on a podcast last year, Price said she now struggles to obtain car insurance due to her litany of past driving convictions.