Rapper Stormzy has admitted driving a Lamborghini with excessively tinted windows.
Regulation 32 of The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986 requires that a vehicle first used after 1st April 1985 has a windscreen allowing the transmission of at least 75 percent light and other windows allowing the transmission of at least 70 percent light.
Contravention of this Regulation is an offence under section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1988. The maximum penalty on summary conviction is a fine at level 3 (£1,000).
Magistrates heard that the front windows of the singer-songwriter's Lamboghini Uros transmitted only 4 percent of the available light when it was stopped by police on Coombe Lane, Kingston upon Thames on the afternoon of Tuesday, 17th October 2023.
Stormzy, real name Michael Ebenazer Owuo Junior, did not attend the hearing at Lavender Hill Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, 24th July 2024.
He is also accused of using a handheld mobile phone as he was driving a Rolls-Royce Wraith on Adison Street, west Kensington, on the afternoon of Thursday, 7th March 2024.
Matters were adjourned until Wednesday, 16th October 2024.
Should Stormzy be convicted of the mobile phone offence, that will attract 6 penalty points. I get the distinct impression that totting might be a factor.
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