Comprehensive Guide: Traffic Offences in Singapore with Demerit Points & Composition Fines

Vehicles classified as Class 2B/2A/2, 3C/3/3CA/3A

(Examples: motor cars, motorcycles, light goods van, etc.)

Vehicles classified as Class 4/4A, 5

(Examples: tractors, buses, trailers, etc.)

• Stopping in a yellow box
• Insufficient warning signals
• Making an unauthorised U-turn
• Vehicles with a 60km/hr vehicular
  speed limit
  failing to keep left

• Carrying excess pillion or pillion is
  not sitting astride
• Rider failing to wear a helmet or wearing
  a helmet insecurely
• Disobeying traffic direction of a Police officer, employee of Authority, |
  or security officer
  engaged in regulating traffic*
• Conveying load not properly secured
• Using tyres with ply or cord
  carcass exposed
• Driver failing to wear a seatbelt
  or failing to ensure every passenger
  wears a seatbelt
• Driver failing to ensure that
  a passenger below the height of
  1.35 metres is properly
  secured by an approved child restraint
  or body-restraining seatbelt
• Parking abreast of another vehicle
• Parking within a pedestrian crossing
• Stopping in a zebra crossing area
• Parking within a Demerit Points
  No Parking Zone
• Stopping within a Demerit Points
  No Stopping Zone
• Driver failing to fill up every passenger
  seat in the
  driver’s cabin, or any additional
  cabin or enclosedspace provided for the carriage of
  passengers or goods, before carrying any person on the
  floor of open deck goods vehicle

• Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 1 to 20 km/hr*
• Exceeding the road speed limit by
  1 to 20 km/hr*
• Failing to give way to oncoming traffic
  at controlled junction*
• Failing to give way at an uncontrolled
  junction, junction, or roundabout*
• Crossing double white lines or a road
  divider*
• Obstructing the flow of traffic
• Forming up incorrectly when turning
  left or right*
• Failing to give way to emergency
  vehicles such as ambulances, fire
  brigades or Police vehicles
• Driving in a dangerous manner while
  carrying load
• Stopping on the shoulder or verge of
  an expressway
• Stopping or remaining at rest on the
  carriageway of an expressway

• Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 21 to 30 km/hr*
• Exceeding the road speed limit by
  21 to 30 km/hr*
• Driving on the shoulder of expressways
• Failing to securely tie or attach
  goods to a goods vehicle to prevent the
  goods from falling off
• Offences committed by motorists at a
  pedestrian crossing*
• Driving or riding against the
  flow of traffic as indicated by
  traffic signs*
• Carrying passengers on a motor vehicle
  or trailer in a dangerous manner
• Reversing unnecessarily on expressways
• Failing to obey the 1.1 metres height
  restriction for persons carried on
  open deck goods vehicle
• Carrying passengers when the clear
  floor space of the open deck
  goods vehicle is insufficient
• Careless driving endangering life*

• Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 31 to 40 km/hr*
• Exceeding the road speed limit by 31 to 40 km/hr*

• Carrying passengers on a goods vehicle in a dangerous manner
• Careless driving causing hurt*

• Failing to conform to traffic light signals*

• Using mobile communication devices while driving*

• Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 41 to 50 km/hr*
• Exceeding the road speed limit by 41 to 50 km/hr*

• Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by 51 to 60 km/hr*
• Exceeding the road speed limit by 51 to 60 km/hr*

• Exceeding the vehicular speed limit by more than 60 km/hr
• Exceeding the road speed limit by more than 60 km/hr
• Reckless or dangerous driving