Wrong information on speedingticket

LesleyJ62

Hi, my husband was stopped for speeding. Having recieved a letter with his choices of a fine or to take a speed awareness course we noticed that the location he was stopped is wrong, we checked the ticket the police gave him at the time and that also gives the wrong place. The road my husband was actually stopped on is nowhere near the road named on either the ticket or the letter. Should we contest the notice

Thanks for any advice

topdaddy_2

No .

Euphoria1z

no idea, but I just wanted to suggest going to that street/location that's named on the ticket and see what the speed limit is there, it may turn out you weren't speeding after all!!!

LesleyJ62

Thanks for the reply Europhia1z

I did a check on the road named , the speed limit is the same so no advantage there.
It is more about the wrong information given on both the ticket at the time and on the later letter, had the idea that this sort of information had to be correct
I have looked for this type of issue on websites but it is a mixed response. I think we will go to CAB and see what advise they give.
Not a big deal but hubby is usually such a good driver and we don't really have the £100 it will cost for the course, but hey, life goes on

matttye

I generally think you should take a common approach stance with such things.

If the speed limit on the road where they say he was speeding made it so that he wasn't actually speeding then you should contest it.

If the speed limit on the road they've put was the same, then it really makes no odds whether they have put the correct road on the ticket or not.

facade

As he was stopped at the time, he knows full well where the offence occurred, and is not disadvantaged by the error on the paperwork.

If he goes to court and pleads not guilty, (on the grounds that he was speeding on Road b not road a,) then when he discloses his evidence, the CPS will simply change the paperwork under the "Slip Rule", which allows for correcting typos in the reg, wrong make or mistake in the road name.

The Perry Mason style of an "ambush defence" doesn't work in the UK I'm afraid.

dld2s

Have you tried asking on Pepipoo, no offence to anyone here, but some of the guys on pepipoo are very clued up on Road traffic laws

macman

I notice that nowhere do you say if he was actually speeding? If he wasn't, then of course he should go to court and contest it, assuming he has a defence.

neilmcl

topdaddy wrote: »

No .

Helpful as ever I see.

Aretnap

If he calls up the ticket office and queries it, it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that they'll cancel it. So it's probably worth a phone call on the off-chance. But they don't have to cancel it, and if push comes to shove it won't provide him with any sort of defence.

Basically what he has is an offer not to prosecute him for speeding if he agrees to pay a fixed penalty or attend a speed awareness course. His choice is to accept that offer, errors and all, or to reject it and allow himself to be prosecuted. If he is prosecuted the court will be interested in whether or not he was speeding, not in whether or not the officer made a mistake on the original traffic offence report.

neilmcl

OP, it may well be worth contesting. May be an idea to have a look on the pepipoo forums - http://forums.pepipoo.com/