Speeding offence but I wasn't the driver. Advice?

mark5

Similar thing has happened to me before, not as soon though. I paid a solicitor about £60.made a declaration and that was the end of it. Mine was at court stage. Buyer had bought with a false name etc and not sent v5 off.

Not_Me_Officer

I'm certainly not going to pay for a car that isn't mine so like you said, of course I have


So you're getting on the topic of giving duff info to the DVLA. Lying.


Like I said about when one of my parents died though - the info given could've been a lie, but the DVLA accepted it regardless & signed it over.


It MAY have been a situation where a couple had an argument & one took the V5C off the other & had it signed over.
Which isn't impossible, since my uncle & his ex partner are currently in that very situation. The DVLA signed it all over to her no problem.


To cap that story short, it quickly moved past the (waste of time) police & is now with the courts.






Everyone on the internet may keep duplicates & duplicates of duplicates, it certainly seems that they do, but like I said, I know of nobody who does that. I'm not saying it's not a bad idea, but me not keeping copies of copies of copies is not an unusual thing.

Silver-Surfer_2

s_b wrote: »

you are assuming they get the letter Well if you don't you're meant to do something about it, aren't you?

if not then do you suggest he commits perjury with something like Who suggested that?

dear dvla further to my letter telling you i have no idea who i sold the car to please fill your records in with the following details
briar rabbet
c/o the bunny hole
10 acre field wiltshire

Thats your suggestion to make up the details.
on a further note OP you have cancelled your insurance i hope but then again of course you have

He's in a hole and asking for help, why be a tool about it?

s_b

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

He's in a hole and asking for help, why be a tool about it?

HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A TOOL
I was trying to explain how easy it is to get in a hole
if you care to read my posts i tell anyone selling a car to keep copies of everything
im in the trade i see all the tricks and i see all the fixes people trade and retail get in by trying to dig themselves out of holes they created

see my post 10.16pm
or would that be too easy for you

AdrianC

Not_Me_Officer wrote: »

The new owner sends off their new keepers bit. I've had to do that in the past when the owner of the car either didn't send off or it got lost in the post - I sent off the new keepers bit & x-weeks later I got the V5C.

Sending the new keeper slip off would achieve nothing. If the vendor didn't send the V5C in, or if it went AWOL, then you fill in V62 - and you include the V5C/2 with it instead of sending £25.

I got the feeling a few posts back but i'll say it now - if you're suggesting I should take their fingerprints & get DNA samples (since we seem to be being sarcastic here) then I've never had to do this, I've never known anyone do this, I was once a member of a car club & nobody I knew there ever did that. Another one of those times where I suppose only people on the internet do it.

No, but keeping a note of the name and address for a few weeks is a reasonable precaution. If you fail to name a driver, then you may be required to explain in court why reasonable efforts couldn't identify them.

Silver-Surfer_2

AdrianC wrote: »

No, but keeping a note of the name and address for a few weeks is a reasonable precaution. If you fail to name a driver, then you may be required to explain in court why reasonable efforts couldn't identify them.

Would he need to explain it to a court if he wasn't the keeper at the time of the alleged offence?

chris_dee

It seems that perhaps the easiest thing to do has already been mentioned i.e. send a letter to the Police speed enforcement office giving a description of events and
1. Explaining the keeper details have been sent to DVLA
2. Former cannot remember the purchasers details but Police can check with DVLA in due course
3. If Police insist on taking action against the former keeper request a copy of the photograph of the driver if one was available from the speed camera.

It may also be worth making sure that if there were any witnesses to the sale of the car or your whereabouts at the time of the speeding offence they make a written record of it in case they need to support you in a court case.

AdrianC

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

Would he need to explain it to a court if he wasn't the keeper at the time of the alleged offence?

Are you assuming that the V5C with the date of the keeper change and the only extant copy of the new keeper's details didn't go AWOL in the tender care of Royal Mail or DVLA, as we're regularly assured a large proportion do...?

Silver-Surfer_2

AdrianC wrote: »

Are you assuming that the V5C with the date of the keeper change and the only extant copy of the new keeper's details didn't go AWOL in the tender care of Royal Mail or DVLA, as we're regularly assured a large proportion do...?

How much of your mail has gone missing?

He cancelled his insurance, no doubt he'll be chasing the tax refund. He's taken out a new insurance using the previous no claims. There's enough reasonable doubt about him being the keeper.

AdrianC

Silver-Surfer wrote: »

He cancelled his insurance, no doubt he'll be chasing the tax refund. He's taken out a new insurance using the previous no claims. There's enough reasonable doubt about him being the keeper.

Or is it a retrospective cover-story?