Speeding fine but dont know who was driving?

londonTiger

Any teenagers in the household?

It was completely wrong to do this, but when I was 17 one of my mates parents were really well off, both high flyers in the city, they owned some very nice cars. One was a BMW m3- when his parents went away on holiday we took the car out for a spin. I didn't drive it but my mate did and he was only on provisional.

I'm sure kids taking their parents cars out is very common.

londonTiger

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

Great British Thuggery? The other option is let people off the hook when they 'can't remember who was driving'.
Use some common sense. What's the other option?

You're right but it does fly in the face of the "burden of proof" principle that's commonplace in law. it's too difficult to obtain proof so we're going to blame the owner unless you can name a third party to put the blame on.

Jack_Regan

londonTiger wrote: »

You're right but it does fly in the face of the "burden of proof" principle that's commonplace in law. it's too difficult to obtain proof so we're going to blame the owner unless you can name a third party to put the blame on.

The law as it stands doesn't blame the owner. It's simply requires them to name the driver.

londonTiger

Jack_Regan wrote: »

The law as it stands doesn't blame the owner. It's simply requires them to name the driver.

or if they don't know who drove then they take blame.

Yorkie1

londonTiger wrote: »

or if they don't know who drove then they take blame.

No, the law simply requires a vehicle owner to have some idea of who is driving their vehicle.

(This is not a dig at the OP).