£250 V5C Fine?

s_b

dvla have my mobile from a v5c application ,maybe thats where yours came from?
never ever give legal paperwork to 3rd parties without reading what might happen,it clearly states your liabilities on the v5c,just consider this car at the moment has just been speed flashed ,is not taxed and is entering the london congestion charging zone,who do you think is going to get the summonses?

NeilF3485

Hi All, Sorry for the delay in getting back on here, thanks for all the responses.

It is not a scam, I had phoned back on a local area code number and know that it is genuine.

I ended up contacting the DVLA, who then gave me the number for DVLA enforcements, who confirmed it was not my old lease vehicle as I suspected, but my girlfriends old car which was written off by the insurance company (the car was in my name).

Looks like I am going to have to go into the warrants office, then get a date set to make a statutory declaration as I knew nothing about it.

In fairness to the girl at DVLA Enforcements, she gave me lots of advice on how I can get the fine back to the original offer of £35, or struck out completely, so now just need to decide whether to pay the £35 and be done with it, or if it will cost me more in my time to argue the toss.

I assume ignorance is no defence, but the insurance company never mentioned that the V5C would need to be sent to the DVLA - I had a car written off 8 or 9 years ago and didn't send it off then either but heard nothing and certainly wasn't fined etc?

Assume the best course of action is to make a statutory declaration and then just pay the £35 or fight it with the DVLA?

NeilF3485

Also in answer to all the queries as to where he got my mobile number - my assumption is that when the new occupiers of my previous address contacted him to say I didn't live there, they gave him the number for the landlord/letting agent, who passed on my mobile number.

[Deleted User]

Surely all you need to say is that you posted the V5 and that it is not your fault it got lost in the post?

bikerben_2

Anything related to the DVLA, especially with licences I now go to the local office and get a photocopy of whatever I've given them - they will do this FOCby the way.

Wasnt many years back that licences were going into the DVLA and magically comming back with no motorcycle entitlement etc on them and folk were having to re-dit their tests etc all at their own expense.