Providing driver particulars after a traffic offence
What vehicle owners and other persons in charge must provide when an authority asks who was driving, how the LTA transfer process works, and the offences and record-keeping duties involved.
Primary source: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/RTA1961?ProvIds=pr81-
Providing driver particulars after a traffic offence
When an authority asks who was driving
If a motor-vehicle driver is alleged or suspected to have committed an offence under the Road Traffic Act or its rules, a police officer, an LTA employee, or an outsourced enforcement officer may require the vehicle owner to identify the driver. The owner must provide the driver's identity and address, and the driving licence held by that person, within 14 days after the requirement is made (Singapore Statutes Online, Road Traffic Act 1961, s 81(1)).
A person other than the owner who was, or should have been, in charge of the vehicle may also be required to provide, within 14 days, information they can give that may lead to the driver's identification (Singapore Statutes Online, Road Traffic Act 1961, s 81(2)).
If the notice names the wrong person
For an LTA vehicle-related offence notice, a recipient who was not the driver or rider can use LTA's Furnish Driver/Rider's Particulars service. LTA says the notice will then be issued to the identified driver or rider (LTA, LTA Offences & Fines). LTA's current form says individuals log in through Singpass and entities through CorpPass; it provides a signed paper form for vehicle owners without those accounts, to be mailed to LTA. The form says a separate notice will subsequently be sent to the named driver (LTA, Furnishing of Driver's Particulars Form).
Use the process and deadline in the notice you received. LTA directs recipients of notices issued by Traffic Police, HDB, or URA to the relevant agency's website, so the LTA service should not be assumed to handle another agency's notice (LTA, LTA Offences & Fines).
Company and fleet records
When the vehicle owner is a company, partnership, or unincorporated body, the Act requires it to designate at least one responsible officer to ensure that it keeps a proper and accurate record of each occasion it permits a person to drive one of its vehicles. The record must include the vehicle registration number; the driver's name, address, driving-licence number, and identity-card or passport number; and the date and time, or period, for which the vehicle was allocated to that driver. The owner must retain each record for at least 12 months from the relevant date or start of the allocation period (Singapore Statutes Online, Road Traffic Act 1961, s 81(8)–(10)).
For a corporate owner prosecuted for failing to identify the driver, the statutory due-diligence defence also requires proof that it kept the required record and that the record shows no person was permitted to drive at or about the offence time (Singapore Statutes Online, Road Traffic Act 1961, s 81(1A) and (1C)).
Offences and penalties
An owner who does not provide required particulars commits an offence unless the owner proves, on a balance of probabilities, that they did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have found the information. A person who was or should have been in charge of the vehicle also commits an offence by failing to provide information they can give that may identify the driver. On conviction, the maximum is a fine of $1,000, imprisonment for up to 3 months, or both; for a second or subsequent conviction, the maximum is $2,000, imprisonment for up to 6 months, or both (Singapore Statutes Online, Road Traffic Act 1961, s 81(1A), (2), and (7)).
Knowingly or recklessly providing materially false or misleading information, intentionally altering, suppressing, or destroying required information to prevent the driver's identification, or knowingly pretending to be the driver are separate offences. Each carries a maximum fine of $10,000, imprisonment for up to 12 months, or both (Singapore Statutes Online, Road Traffic Act 1961, s 81(3), (3A), and (3B)).
Coverage debt
The LTA overview and form explain LTA's driver-particulars process, but do not set out the workflow for notices issued by Traffic Police or other agencies. The Act also does not prescribe the specific electronic or paper channel in its general duty. Follow the named agency's notice for how to respond. Act 18 of 2026 has enacted a separate automated notice process and additional record requirements, but these provisions await commencement by Gazette notification: section 1 requires an appointed date, and the current SSO subsidiary-legislation index did not list a commencement notification for this Act when checked on 18 October 2026. See Driver Improvement Points System for the changes and their status (Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2026, ss 1 and 21; SSO, Current Subsidiary Legislation Index).