Mohamed Salah Banned from Driving for 6 Months in UK for Speeding Violation

Egyptian star Mohamed Salah has been banned from driving in the United Kingdom for six months and fined, following a case linked to his Rolls-Royce luxury car, according to the British newspaper The Sun. The incident dates back to last March, when a mobile camera in the Wilmslow area of Cheshire captured Salah’s Rolls-Royce Spectre electric vehicle, valued at approximately £400,000, exceeding the legal speed limit. According to the newspaper, police asked Salah to identify the person driving the car at the time the violation was recorded, but he failed to provide the required information and did not respond to two court summons sent to his home. Salah was convicted in absentia by the Warrington Magistrates’ Court under a special legal procedure for failing to provide information identifying the driver at the time of the offense. The court ordered a six-month driving ban, imposed a fine of £660, and required him to pay £120 in court costs and £264 in additional fees. The Sun clarified that the penalty was not issued because Salah was personally convicted of speeding, but rather for failing to provide the required information regarding the identity of the person driving the car when the violation was recorded. The incident occurred just two days after Salah announced his departure from Liverpool at the end of last season, before his subsequent move to Turkish club Trabzonspor. This was not Salah’s first traffic-related incident in England; in 2022, he was fined £200 and given three penalty points on his driving license after his Ferrari F8 Tributo was recorded traveling at 63 mph on a road with a maximum speed limit of 50 mph. In another incident in 2018, Salah appeared in a video that seemed to show him using a mobile phone while driving near Anfield stadium, but police decided not to bring charges against him at the time due to insufficient evidence.