Re: speeding ticket --while on road test Archived Message
Posted by Matt Elliott on April 12, 2009, 8:08 pm, in reply to "Re: speeding ticket --while on road test"
Hi, After some thought on this I think what keith says is right,you have to satify them under Section 172 that you have done everything in your power to identify the driver & by saying you can't due to the shear number of road tests carried out by different people it is almost impossible to nominate one person,ask them for photo to help & state that there is now a system in place to stop a repeat,now depending on the mood of the sargent on the day will decide the outcome. Or you can get the customer to drag their heals sending back the nip,say return by day 27 of the 28,nominating the garage,you will then receive one within a couple of weeks,ignor that, you will then get a reminder & a further 14 days,then nominate one mechanic,get him to ignor it wait for reminder then get him to nominate another mechanic etc etc after 6 months it will time out & that will be an end of it, Bearing in mind your wasting 6 weeks per nomination it'll only take four of you to go this route not including the customer.Also bear in mind this route is probably "Perverting the course of Justice" which can carry a 7 year jail sentence & I'm not suggesting you take this advice. I think what Dave was saying would of worked but unfortunatly a couple of cases have been lost at the European High Court of Human Rights. In about two weeks, three high court Law Lords will be giving their verdict on a case held in March regarding the legal admissabilty of laser speedmeters with regard to the fact that no Statutory Instrument's have been posted in Parliment as stated by the ammended section 20 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 in section 23 of the Road Traffic Act 1991,subsections 4 a ,b ,9 & 10 . I got busted last June for allegedly exceeding 70mph (103mph) & my trial is due to be held next month so with a bit of luck these Law Lords will uphold the law,then I won't even have to go to Court,if I do I'm defending myself so should be fun if nothing else. Matt
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