Mishandled speeding fine? Urgent advice needed!

kaciep

Hi,

In March 2007 I got caught on a speed camera doing 36 in 30 zone. I received a letter asking if I was the driver etc. to which I have replayed to. Then about 4 months later I have sold my car and move to a new property. There was another letter send to my old address and my previous landlord did reply to it (by telephone) stating I have changed address (he also did tell them my new address!). Since then I have received another latter (to my new address) which did state that they have trouble processing my ticket as I have a Polish driving license. This was in ~August 2007 and since then I have not received any other letters for as long as I was living there (July 2008).

Recently I have received another ticket (which I have paid straight away) and together with a confirmation of payment I have received another letter from bailiffs which states that I need to pay £410 within a week or they will be knocking on my door (this is with regards to the old ticket).

In a nutshell, I was expecting a ticket and never received one. It took them more than 1 year to issue a ticket, and since then I have changed my address (so I never received any payment requests). Now bailiffs want me to pay £410!!

I have also called HMCS to speak to them about the situation, and the only advice which they gave me was to avoid the bailiff till the case goes back to HMCS and then the ticket will return to it's original £135 (which I gladly pay). However I think this is just not right, why should I have to hide when it's them who did not handle my case properly?

I have never received a ticket which asks me to pay for the offence, and I think that 1 year (or more) to issue such a ticket is not acceptable and shows great mishandling of my case.

I really want (and always wanted) to pay the fine but not £410!! What can I possibly do in such a situation??

I hope I did present my case clear enough.

Please advice

Many thanks,
K

sarahg1969

I suggest you repost this on the motoring forums at https://www.pepipoo.com, where there are lots of members who will be able to give you advice.

anewman

If I understand correctly you should now have a UK license. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/DrivingInGbOnAForeignLicence/DG_4022556 Don't end up talking yourself into something worse than a speeding fine

taffy056

a question about this, if during the offence he had a polish driving licence and was driving on that, will he get points on his british driving licence now he's got one?

Strider590

Your doing something wrong!?

There's a bunch of Polish people around my area who somehow seem to be invulnerable to prosecution, driving uninsured and untaxed cars..... Notably one car which collected 5 or more parking tickets a day for the past 3 months (in fact it's parked outside again on 15mins limit parking as I type), has no tax either. What I don't understand is why the Police can't trace the cars/owners.......

Anyway, https://www.pepipoo.com, is the best place to go for advice.

kwaks

You need the conviction returned to the prosecution stage, pepipoo will give you the correct sequence to follow to do this and halt the bailiffs