Katie Price has been slapped with her seventh driving ban and a hefty fine after the former model failed to respond to letters sent by police regarding a speeding ticket
Katie Price has been banned from driving for a seventh time. Her latest trouble comes as a Ford Capri, registered in her name, was spotted driving at 80mph near the North Yorkshire village of Stutton, on the A64.
Police from North Yorkshire wrote to Katie at her West Sussex home, asking her to confirm whether she was the driver. However, she’s since been prosecuted and convicted of failing to respond to police, which saw her slapped with a six-month driving ban and a legal bill of £1,000.
Price, 47, has previously received driving bans totalling more than six years after she was first disqualified from driving in 2010.
In December 2010, she 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 it was seen by police to 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 where magistrates deal with 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 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.
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