A survey by insurance company Esure has revealed that the average UK driver will rack up £214 of fines during their life's motoring.

The research also revealed that the average driving offender will receive an estimated total of £569 in fines throughout their lifetime.

Esure reckoned that parking rules and regulations were the biggest earners, as 34 percent of those questioned admitted to regularly being confused by parking rules, while 36 percent confessed to deliberately disobeyin...

Drivers on British roads whose vehicles are registered abroad are evading fines totalling nearly £15m a year because authorities here are failing to enforce them. Figures disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act also reveal that many police forces routinely discard speeding tickets and local councils simply do not bother to issue parking tickets to vehicles with foreign numberplates because tracing the owner is too time-consuming.

Information obtained by The Sunday Times shows th...