3 points and £60 fine for brake lights

Gordon861

OK couple more questions:

1. What is the offence code on the FPN?
2. Did you manage to get the lights working now?

sebastianj

Hintza, if you are saying that police may come back with a vengeance then that will be a society even you would not want to live in. Not saying people should drive without brake lights but commonsense is something, if law abiding people are picked on as an easy target then every one just as well start braking the law, a terrible dilema.
seb

vaporate

Hintza wrote: »

Interesting point. It would also appear OP was cut a bit of slack by the police to get home.

OP you can start jumping up and down but remember policemen have long memories and if you want to complain then expect to be stopped if/when you make the slightest traffic violation.

There is nothing worse than travelling behind a car with no brake lights. It is also your responsibility to check them every morning before you set off. Of course most of us never do but we can't then claim it only went on that journey.

Sounds like good old !!!! kissing to me. So it's lucky that his car wasn't taken away because of one rear light?

LMAO give me a break. I can think of more severe reasons like bald tyres for kick starters. Really, the local police have you lot trained don't they.

:T

Hintza

sebastianj wrote: »

When driving along, if your Tyre bursts, your brakes fail or a fuse blows then how can you be held responsible for it?

But this is not what happened with you is it?

You have a fault which you knew about and supposedly got fixed but for all you know it was defective 5 minutes after you left the garage in July. You haven't checked it.

Let me rephrase my comment from my last post:- Do you have any idea how dangerous it is driving without brake lights?

vaporate

Hintza wrote: »

But this is not what happened with you is it?

You have a fault which you knew about and supposedly got fixed but for all you know it was defective 5 minutes after you left the garage in July. You haven't checked it.

Let me rephrase my comment from my last post:- Do you have any idea how dangerous it is driving without brake lights?

Depends how far he was driving and whether night or daylight. I've seen a few people do it, and get away with it. Night time mind you is suicide. Daylight is doable, longs its not a long journey and you're going to sort it out soon.

Hintza

vaporate wrote: »

So it's lucky that his car wasn't taken away because of one rear light?

LMAO give me a break. I can think of more severe reasons like bald tyres for kick starters. Really, the local police have you lot trained don't they.

He didn't have any brake lights!

And since you don't drive you wouldn't have clue about the effect it can have on someone following a car with no brake lights.

vaporate

Hintza wrote: »

He didn't have any brake lights!

And since you don't drive you wouldn't have clue about the effect it can have on someone following a car with no brake lights.

Of course I know. Just because I don't have a licence YET doesn't mean I'm clueless to the 'possible' dangers.

Dave101t

here is a thought: mot failure sheets may be accessed by the police if they did a random check on your vehicle, seeing a failure for brake lights, then seeing you on the street with the same defect may count as a problem, were you issued with an actual failure sheet or was it just 'repaired' without a retest?
also, every time ive had brake lights out its cost about 2 quid to repair.

very dodgy by the police tho.

Gordon861

What they might have done is issued an FPN for :
CU10 Using a vehicle with defective brakes 3pts
but that is stretching the description of a defective brakes a bit far.
(http://www.licencecheck.co.uk/offense_codes.php)

I think (unless they did more checks) you should have been done for something like:
Lighting offences - Prosecutable:
Lamps, reflectors, rear markings not maintained <=== this one I think
Vehicle not fitted with specified obligatory lamps
Specified obligatory lamps not correctly fitted
(http://www.vauxhallownersnetwork.co.uk/showthread.php?t=173503)

None of those lighting offences are endorsable, just fineable.

CopperPlate_2

Gordon861 wrote: »

OK just read the whole thread and I may be wrong but I see no where anything indicating '3pts and a £60 fine' other than the title.

There are just too many holes all over this post. OP can't seem to decide what he was told, what he was given and what he has to do. Coupled with the fact that there appears to be dribs and drabs of information coming out at a time, often not adding anything in the way of clarity, and we have a situation where all that's happening is people are slagging the cops off without having a full or proper understanding of what actually took place as the OP is being economic with the facts.