Posted on 07/31/2025 12:52:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Emma Watson has been banned from driving for six months.
The Harry Potter star, 35, was disqualified and ordered to pay £1,044 (S$1800) after she was caught driving at 38mph in a 30mph zone in Oxford.
Emma - who shot to fame as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise - was sentenced at High Wycombe Magistrates' Court on Wednesday (July 16), after she admitted speeding on Banbury Road, Oxford.
She was driving her £30,000 Audi S3 car at the time.
Emma wasn't in attendance at the courtroom, which is based in Buckinghamshire, southeast England.
According to This is Oxfordshire, her representative said in court that his client "fully understands her position and will accept her punishment".
Before the speeding incident in Oxford, Emma already had nine points on her license following three previous offences.
Her Audi was impounded by police in February 2024 after her parked motor was blocking two cars in Stratford-upon-Avon.
At the time, Warwickshire Police confirmed that "a report of a blue Audi S3 parked across a driveway and blocking in two cars on High Street near the junction with Sheep Street in Stratford.
"The report was made at 9.42pm and the car was impounded and taken away at 10.21pm.
"No crime was recorded."
Just days later, Emma wrote on X: "Still searching for parking in Stratford-upon-Avon. [crying laughing face emoji]"
The star was studying for a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Oxford, which she began in September 2023, before switching to a PhD.
Gasp, a whole 8 mph. My heart sinks for a UK that has sadly sunk to the country of 1984. And, given its leadership and new citizens, it will sink to an even lower level inhabited by the religion of hate, rape, misogyny and lying.
But did the lady druggist give Emma Watson her pills?
Ha ha. Guilty as charged.
“. It would be the equivalent of well over £40k in USA.”
In the showroom, less than half that once it leaves the dealer lot.
I live in a speed trap town, small town in Appalachia on a 4 lane highway. My daughter got pulled in a 25 mph zone. Cop walks up to see a multi-color hairdo.
“What brings you here?”
“My parents just moved here”
“Oh. Slow down please” He walks off.
They don’t pull locals. The funeral home flower truck as Autobahn privileges.
She’s a habitual criminal! 😊
Are you really that stupid?......Sheesh!
speeding on Banbury Road, Oxford.
Oxford is located in England.......
8 miles over the posted speed limit? Wow, I'm glad I drive 10 over...and on the highway 25 over...when I drove my Motorhome to Daytona for the 500, I was cruising and people were passing me on I-4, I looked at the speedometer and I was doing 100...
An Audi S4? Nice car...
What she needs is a good spanking.
The line starts behind me...
There is a good deal to be said in favour of base 60 and Cuneiform.
30 km/h over in BC is a draconian fine and a 7 day immediate impound of the vehicle. Even better, only the registered owner can get the car released from the impound after paying the towing and storage bills.
One of my former staff (I’m no longer there) learned this the hard way...
Nope. Been a municipal prosecutor for 30 years and it’s always been a thing. Not an issue till you get to 3.
A few years ago wife and I were in New England and VT, NH and ME (Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine) had speed limits in both MPH and KPH. We might be going back in September for the New Hampshire NASCAR race. Have a family wedding and if I can, going to watch a UCONN football game.
She has been cheating on husband Ronald Weasley for years.
They’ll tag you around here for 8 over in a school zone. Drive 38 in a 30 and you are more likely to instigate a road rage incident for holding up traffic than a ticket for speeding.
I’ve already decided I’d better not go to the UK. If they looked at my posts at FR and elsewhere, they’d throw me in the Tower for political incorrectness.
Huh?
Dang I zipped through NV on my R1250RT touring bike at 110. Not many cops between Mercury and Churchill..
Are you really that perfect?
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