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Demerit Points
British Columbia's Demerit Point System
10 Points
- Driving while suspended
- Driving while prohibited or suspended
- Failing to stop for peace officer
- Driving while prohibited or suspended
- Driving while suspended
- Driving with more than 80 milligrams of alcohol in blood
- Refusal to give blood sample
6 Points
- Careless driving
- Driving without reasonable consideration
3 Points
- No driver's licence
- Failing to obey restriction on driver's licence
- Drive contrary to restriction
- Failing to fulfill duty of driver involved in accident
- Fail to stop for police
- Fail to state name and address
- Disobey construction signs
- Disobey flagman
- Speed relative to conditions
- Slow driving
- Speed in municipality
- Speed outside municipality
- Speed against highway sign
- Speed against area sign
- Speed against municipal sign
- Speed on municipal lane
- Speed in school zone
- Speed in playground zone
- Excessive speed
- Fail to stop for school bus
- Fail to keep right
- Slow vehicle not on right
- Fail to keep right of rotary traffic island
- Passing when meeting oncoming vehicle
- Cross solid double line
- Fail to keep right of double broken/solid line
- Cross solid broken line
- Fail to keep right of single broken or solid line
- Fail to pass at safe distance
- Fail to complete pass safely
- Fail to yield to passing vehicle
- Increase speed while being passed
- Unsafe pass on left
- Pass without clear view
- Follow too closely
- Commercial vehicle following too closely
- Fail to leave sufficient space between vehicles for passing purposes
- Drive over highway divider
- Fail to keep right on divided highway
- Enter controlled access highway
- Leave controlled access highway
- Improper turn at intersection
- Fail to yield for emergency vehicle
- Fail to yield to pedestrian
- Pass vehicle yielding for pedestrian
- Disobey school guard
- Disobey school patrol
- Disobey stop sign
- Drive while control obstructed
- Drive while view obstructed
- Obstruct driver
2 Points
- Driving maintenance or construction vehicle without due regard for safety
- Fail to obey police direction
- Disobey traffic control device
- Fail to yield to pedestrian
- Fail to yield to vehicle
- Yellow light at intersection
- Yellow light, intersection no stop before intersection
- Yellow light no intersection
- Red light at intersection
- Fail to yield ó right turn ó red light
- Fail to yield ó left turn ó red light
- Red light ó no intersection
- Disobey green arrow
- Fail to yield on green arrow
- Fail to stop yellow arrow crosswalk
- Fail to stop yellow arrow intersection
- Fail to yield yellow arrow pedestrian
- Flashing red light at intersection
- Flashing red light--no intersection
- Yellow flashing light at intersection
- Yellow flashing light--no intersection
- Fail to yield at green flashing light
- Failing to obey lane direction control signal
- Drive over newly painted lines
- Unsafe lane change
- Lane change solid line
- Change lanes without signal
- Left turn from wrong lane
- Right turn from wrong lane
- Illegal pass on laned roadway
- Slow moving in wrong lane
- Pass on right
- Unsafe pass on right
- Pass on right off roadway
- Disobey traffic sign or signal
- Improper left turn no intersection
- Improper right turn no intersection
- Unsafe U-turn
- Prohibited U-turn
- U-turn intersection
- U-turn business district
- Unsafe start
- No signal on turn
- Inadequate signal on turn
- Fail to signal stop or decrease in speed
- Drive vehicle without signal device
- No proper signalling equipment for right-hand drive vehicle
- Fail to yield at uncontrolled intersection
- Disobey yield sign
- Fail to yield on left turn
- Fail to yield to left turn vehicle
- Fail to yield after stop
- Fail to yield to vehicle leaving stop
- Emerging vehicle fail to stop
- Emerging vehicle fail to yield
- Failing to exercise duty to pedestrian
- Fail to stop at railway crossing
- Leave railway crossing unsafely
- Drive past railway crossing gate
- Commercial vehicle no stop at railway
- Fail to proceed with caution at railway crossing
- Reverse into intersection
- Reverse when unsafe
- Operate motorcycle not on seat
- Permit unlawfully seated passenger
- Operate motorcycle more than 2 abreast
- Improper operation of vehicle on canyon defile or on mountain road
- Coasting down grade illegally
- Open door while unsafe
- Follow fire truck too closely
- Park near fire truck
- Drive over fire hose
- Drive on sidewalk
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