Morgan Gibbs-White has been handed a court bill of about £1,000 after his Range Rover was caught running a red light, with the England and Nottingham Forest attacking midfielder convicted of failing to identify the driver.
The 26-year-old’s vehicle was caught on camera going past a set of lights in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, 1.1 seconds after they turned red.
Gibbs-White, who earned his first England cap in 2024, failed to respond to two police letters asking him to confirm whether he had been driving at the time of the offence, according to court documents.
Fine, penalty points and costs
Last Tuesday, a court convicted him of failing to provide the identity of a driver at the time of an offence.
At Southern Derbyshire Magistrates’ Court, he was fined £660, given six penalty points on his licence and ordered to pay £120 in costs and a £264 victim surcharge.
A court official said Gibbs-White did not enter a plea or mitigation. He was sentenced behind closed doors under the fast-track Single Justice Procedure.
Number plate discrepancy
Nottinghamshire Police put out an alert on Gibbs-White’s car when the force tried to investigate the traffic light incident. Officers found the number plate registered with the DVLA was one letter different from the one on the vehicle.
Staffordshire Police then pulled over the Range Rover in April and confirmed it belonged to Gibbs-White.
Court papers show a Nottinghamshire Police camera caught the car going past a red traffic light at 15:17 GMT on 28 January in Radcliffe Road.
“At the time of the offence, the vehicle was captured failing to comply with a red light signal, the time into the red light was recorded as 1.1 seconds,” a police worker wrote in her statement.
Previous driving ban
Gibbs-White was banned from driving for six months in May last year after he was caught speeding six times in the space of three months.
He was ordered to pay just under £4,000 in fines for that spate of offences, which included two speeding tickets acquired on the same day.
Gibbs-White signed for Forest from Wolverhampton Wanderers in 2022. He has made 10 appearances for England and was called up to Thomas Tuchel’s recent squad for the Nations League.