Rio Ferdinand gets 6 Months driving ban in UK

Former footballer, Rio Ferdinand has been banned from driving for six months. Ferdinand broke a 70mph speed limit on the A27 dual carriageway at the Hangleton interchange in Hove, East Sussex on July 22, last year. The ban comes despite his claim in court that the cancer deaths of his wife Rebecca in 2015 and mother Janice St Fort in 2017 meant his children needed him to drive them personally.

The father-of-three, whose first wife died of cancer, was speeding in a brand-new grey two-litre diesel Mercedes last July and admitted the offence under the new secret Single Justice Procedure Act.  Ferdinand told the court today he could not allow his children to travel with a chauffeur and claimed that the trauma of losing their mother and grandmother, as well as the coronavirus crisis, meant he needed his driving licence.

Ferdinand was previously banned from driving for six months in 2012 after he was caught speeding three times on the same stretch of road in five-week period. He was also convicted of speeding in 2005, 2003 and 2002 and drink-driving in 1997.  Ferdinand’s last two speeding convictions followed a Speed Awareness Course for another similar offence.