Can't pay my speeding ticket & no licecnse

Bodmass_2

I seem to be in a bit of a pickle.

I've got a £60 speeding ticket to pay within 2 weeks but I'm on an income of £65pw JSA. I can't both pay this ticket & heat/feed myself over Xmas. What options do I have (if any). For example, if it goes to court will I get a bigger fine but one that I can pay in instalments?

Secondly even to pay now I would need to send my drivers license in to DVLA. I can't find it, and it is going to take several weeks to obtain a new one as I am going to have to first apply for a new copy of my birth certificate. Only then can I apply for a new license, which I can only apply for by the longer postal route.

So am I just going to have to accept being referred to court on this? If so, what is likely to happen?

Thanks.

Gene_Hunt_2

You may be convicted of excess speed and failing to produce your licence.

maninthestreet

How about family and friends - can't they lend you some money to pay the fine??

Lum

It'll be at least £15 more due to the victims of crime surcharge. Possibly more if the magistrate is a car hating greenie or whatever.

Lum

Gene_Hunt wrote: »

You may be convicted of excess speed and failing to produce your licence.

Unless he's a complete idiot, he'll have plenty of time to get a replacement licence as it will be ages before the court process rumbles along to the point that he actually needs to produce it. It typically takes 6 months.

Bodmass_2

maninthestreet wrote: »

How about family and friends - can't they lend you some money to pay the fine??

I will try and may succeed in borrowing the money - but I still have a timescale issue, and it's not certain I will get the money.

Gene_Hunt_2

Bodmass wrote: »

I will try and may succeed in borrowing the money - but I still have a timescale issue, and it's not certain I will get the money.

No point if you can't get the licence within 28 days of the offence date.

Gene_Hunt_2

Lum wrote: »

Unless he's a complete idiot, he'll have plenty of time to get a replacement licence as it will be ages before the court process rumbles along to the point that he actually needs to produce it. It typically takes 6 months.

The date he failed to produce the licence is the day the police demanded it. When he was stopped for speeding.

Bodmass_2

Gene_Hunt wrote: »

The date he failed to produce the licence is the day the police demanded it. When he was stopped for speeding.

It's a speed camera offence.

rev_henry

If you go to court, I would have thought they would take the fine out of your benefits as a small instalment weekly. As you're on such a low income the court may well decide to give you a lower fine than £60. So it won't be so bad for you.
If only it worked like this for the rest of us.

I don't know about the failure to produce your licence issue though.

zzzLazyDaisy

Bodmass wrote: »

Secondly even to pay now I would need to send my drivers license in to DVLA. I can't find it, and it is going to take several weeks to obtain a new one as I am going to have to first apply for a new copy of my birth certificate. Only then can I apply for a new license, which I can only apply for by the longer postal route.

Thanks.

You don't need to send in your birth certificate for a replacement licence. There is an on-line form or you can get a paper form from the post office. You have to make a declaration that you are currently a resident of the UK, and provide details of your address etc. It should be a fairly painless process. When I did mine the licence was back with me in a few days.