Caught speeding

daniel80

Hi I was caught speeding 43mph in a 30 zone [all be it 150 yards before national speed limit ]. I was stopped and given a traffic offence notice, and told not to do anything until notified by post. This happened 12 days ago and was wondering is there a certain time limit in which I should be notified and do I just have to keep waiting.
Thanks in advance for any help.

chunkychocky

I always thought they had 14 days to notify you, but this may well have changed since I was told that umpteen years ago.

dggar

Is your present address the same address as held by the DVLA?

daniel80

Yeh I have lived at the same address for 30 years, someone else told me 14 days but not sure if that counts as I was given a traffic offence report.

Nearly_Old

daniel80 wrote: »

Yeh I have lived at the same address for 30 years, someone else told me 14 days but not sure if that counts as I was given a traffic offence report.

The 14 days refers to the serving of the S172 that is on the reverse of the NIP that is sent to the Registered Keeper (RK) requesting details of the driver at the time of the alleged offence. This allows a further NIP to be issued to the driver if the RK was not driving the vehicle. In this case the police have the driver's details as the OP was stopped and issued with the Traffic Offence Report so the 14 days is probably not applicable.

Yorkie1

Nearly_Old wrote: »

The 14 days refers to the serving of the S172 that is on the reverse of the NIP that is sent to the Registered Keeper (RK) requesting details of the driver at the time of the alleged offence. This allows a further NIP to be issued to the driver if the RK was not driving the vehicle. In this case the police have the driver's details as the OP was stopped and issued with the Traffic Offence Report so the 14 days is probably not applicable.

Correct. The14 days refers to the NIP provisions but they do not apply where the person was spoken to at the scene of the incident.

The police don't have a particular timescale for serving a s.172 notice but, in these circumstances where they already know the identify of the driver, there is no need for such a notice.

I imagine that the next stage will be either a summons, or an offer of a fixed penalty, or an offer of a speeding course (can't remember whether 43 in a 30 is too fast for that).