Wrong information on speedingticket

TonyMMM

The advice in post #6 is correct - he was stopped at the time, so cannot claim to be misled by the mistake on the paperwork - however, as Aretnap also suggests in #10 a call is worth a try, the ticket office might just withdraw if the mistake is pointed out .... a slim chance, but you never know.

topdaddy_2

neilmcl wrote: »

Helpful as ever I see.

Factually correct and useful advice. They were stopped. They know they were speeding. Dibble knows they were speeding. What next, check if the copper was wearing his hat?;)

eta: AND more useful than yours too

Rover_Driver

LesleyJ62 wrote: »

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

Could it be the road he was allegedly seen speeding in? not necessarily the road he was stopped in.

Mankysteve

LesleyJ62 wrote: »

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

Its going to be his word against the police officers and I would suspect he may loose in court.

Just take the speed awareness course and be done with it.

Ectophile

A decent lawyer could give much better advice than a few random people on an internet forum.

My thought is that if the police can't even get the details right about where the OP's husband was supposed to have been speeding, then they are going to look very stupid in court when faced with a good lawyer who knows what they are doing.

Of course, first make sure that he wasn't stopped for speeding in one road, but he was going so fast that the police didn't manage to stop him until he'd got to another.

Yorkie1

Ectophile wrote: »

A decent lawyer could give much better advice than a few random people on an internet forum.

My thought is that if the police can't even get the details right about where the OP's husband was supposed to have been speeding, then they are going to look very stupid in court when faced with a good lawyer who knows what they are doing.

Of course, first make sure that he wasn't stopped for speeding in one road, but he was going so fast that the police didn't manage to stop him until he'd got to another.

Under the court procedure rules now, a defence lawyer has to disclose the nature of the defence in advance so there's no merit in attempting an ambush defence any longer.

So, this would have to be disclosed - leading to an amendment to the summons, so no loophole.

Ectophile

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Under the court procedure rules now, a defence lawyer has to disclose the nature of the defence in advance so there's no merit in attempting an ambush defence any longer.

So, this would have to be disclosed - leading to an amendment to the summons, so no loophole.

The aim would not to be to find some magic loophole, but to undermine any confidence in the evidence supplied by the police. If they cannot even write down the correct location for the speeding offence on the original form, then what other information have they got wrong?

Perhaps they wrote down the wrong speed as well?

Muscle750

I would suggest he was done after he was pulled by the plod I got stopped in Nottingham 40 mph on the signs yet I was told it's been reduced and there is a sign to the effect a mile back up the road all because a few weeks before two people who were racing piled into a tree and killed themselves on that road in the press reports they said they were doing 70 mph plus yet I got done for 36 in a 40 which a half hidden sign in a bush saying it had been reduced if they were to spend and make more effort into repairing the roads to a satisfactory standard
I went on the speed awareness course 25 of us paying £75 that's 1875 runs twice a day thats 3700 plus 5 days a week that's over £15 k a week and when one of the attendees asked where the money went they wouldn't tell us ok hire the building and pay the two planks to show us where we are going wrong and a cold cup of tea £15k a week and this can be confirmed by having to wait 3 months to book it as all the dates were full showing it's done twice a day and bearing in mind this is just in one venue

pvt

Do the speed awareness course. They have nice tea and biscuits at them.

Richard53

I would be very pessimistic about your chances of success. The last time I was caught 'speeding', the time of the 'offence' was wrong by about 20 minutes. I could prove that at the time of the 'offence' I was in a meeting about five miles away. I saw the camera van as I passed it, but for various reasons I know I was well within the limit. I genuinely believed, and do to this day, that there was a mistake. In court, I was respectful, polite and reasonable. The young copper who operated the device later admitted to me that he thought I would get off as I had convinced him at least that the evidence was unreliable.


The result was a slap-down from the elderly magistrates, a doubling of the fine and costs added on top. It was an expensive way to find out how naïve I had been.


If your husband knows he was speeding, then he should take it on the chin, regardless of any errors in the paperwork. If he wasn't, he should view it as a kind of road tax on the unlucky. The speed awareness courses are quite interesting, or so I have been told. Personally, I have changed the way I drive, and I haven't been caught since. Read that how you will.