Driving ban Wrong identity

Jumblebumble

ali4758 said:

Hi, looking for advice, my daughters partner has been told he is banned from driving and owes £1500 in fines and costs for speed camera offences he didn't commit. The offences are on motorway near Rugby and we live in Dorset. The background is that his father has exactly the same name as him and his brother, who is disqualified registered the car in his fathers name and gave the family address. The documents were all sent to the address of the father  who is divorced from mother and he simply ignored them. They then sent them to the original family address where the mother still lives.  The documents were forwarded by his mother after all dates for any notifications could be challenged and my daughter partner contacted them to state it was not him, he had never owned the vehicle, hadn't lived at the address for twenty years, and was living in Dorset at the time of the offences and could prove by digital photography that he was in Dorset at the time of most of the offences. When they contact the fines people they get routed to the payment line via automated phone diversion. Both the father and brother tell him just to ignore it but he has a business and is currently having to be driven around by my daughter. The brother has refused to come clean and has sold the vehicle. They don't know where to start to challenge the process and any help would be appreciated.

It would be interesting to know the age of the person insuring the car as I would expect the court / police to look at this.
AskMid might be able to help

ali4758

Thanks for some of the advice, can you, AdrianC and manxman clarify your final posts please

AdrianC

ali4758 said:

Thanks for some of the advice, can you, AdrianC and manxman clarify your final posts please

Read the thread Manxman referred to.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6263939/dvla-unrecognised-penalty

That was a totally unrelated person being convicted, with the same name and DoB. DVLA had to pick a driver record, and got the wrong one.

This one is family members with the same name playing pointy-finger over whose problem this car is, leading to the keeper (whichever of the two that is) getting a failure-to-identity.