Katie Price’s disregard for road laws has resulted in a seventh driving ban, this time for ignoring police attempts to question her about a speeding offence. The former glamour model was handed a six-month disqualification and a legal bill of over £1,000 after failing to respond to letters from North Yorkshire Police concerning her Ford Capri, which was clocked travelling at 80mph on a 70mph stretch of the A64 near Stutton last October.
The conviction was processed last week through the Single Justice Procedure, a closed-door court system where magistrates decide cases without a public hearing. Court records show Price, 47, was charged with speeding and failing to give information relating to the identification of a driver. The speeding charge was later withdrawn by the police, but magistrate Claire Sagar, sitting at Harrogate Magistrates’ Court, found her guilty of the failure to respond. She was ordered to pay a £660 fine, £120 in costs and a £264 victim surcharge.
One of the worst records a judge has seen
This latest sanction is merely the newest entry in what a district judge in 2021 condemned as “one of the worst driving records I have ever seen”. Since her first disqualification in 2010, Price has accumulated bans totalling more than six years.
Her litany of offences began with a six-month ban in December 2010 for speeding. A year-long ban followed in 2012 for failing to respond to speeding tickets, and she received another six-month disqualification in February 2018 after being caught speeding again. In January 2019, she was back in court for driving while disqualified, leading to a three-month ban. Merely a month later, she was convicted of being drunk in charge of a vehicle after her car was seen veering off a road; a judge rejected her claim that a mystery man had been driving as “not plausible”.
Later in 2019, she received an 18-month road ban for failing to disclose the name of a driver following a crash. The most serious incident came in 2021, when she flipped her car and told police at the scene: “I took drugs, I should not be driving, I admit it all.” For drink-driving while disqualified and without insurance, she was given a two-year ban, a 16-week suspended prison sentence, 100 hours of community service and up to 30 rehabilitation sessions. District Judge Amanda Kelly told her: “You appear to think you are above the law.” Last year, she was fined £880 for driving without a licence and insurance in Northamptonshire but avoided another ban for those specific offences.
The opaque nature of the Single Justice Procedure means it is not known if the court was aware of this extensive history when imposing the latest ban, or whether Price had the chance to argue against it. North Yorkshire Police stated that a letter was sent to her West Sussex home about the October 15 speeding incident on October 20, with a reminder issued on November 10. The force confirmed no response was received to either communication.
Extravagant expenditure amid bankruptcy
Price’s troubles extend beyond the criminal courts into severe financial difficulty. An author and reality TV star, she has been through bankruptcy proceedings, with bankruptcies from 2019 and 2024 now discharged. However, she remains subject to a court order aimed at settling her debts, which is set to run until February 2027.
At a hearing last October, a judge instructed her to reduce her “extravagant pattern of expenditure” after it was revealed that nearly half of her monthly income was earmarked for creditors. The practical consequences of her driving behaviour have also become a personal burden. Price herself has acknowledged that her lengthy list of motoring convictions now makes it a struggle for her to obtain car insurance.
