Lost speeding fine

Lloyd9637

What do i do.....
I have just been notified by my company that they have recieved a court summons for failing to provide details of the driver.

I drive a company vehicle and back in febuary whilst working away i must off been caught speeding but i was unaware as the ticket goes to the lease company who then pass it on to my head office then it gets forwarded to me. Somewhere along the line the ticket has been lost meaning i cannont admit it was me who was driving and now my company faces a fine in court. I have been told that the ticket wont stand anymore and that my company will just pay a fine and as far as the police are aware i wasnt the driver.

Just after some advice as i dont want this to follow me later on.

Car_54

You're safe.Do nothing. It is now too late (over six months) for you to be prosecuted for speeding.

Your company failed to return the form nominating you as the driver, and now faces a fine. That is their fault, not yours.

Manxman_in_exile

What Car_54 says above is correct.  If your employer never identified you as the driver (and so long as you never identified yourself) then it is now to late to commence proceedings against you for speeding as the police have no evidence as to who was driving.  If your company never identified you as the driver, then dealing with the summons and fine is their problem - not yours.

However, you also say:

Lloyd9637 said:

... but i was unaware as the ticket goes to the lease company who then pass it on to my head office then it gets forwarded to me. Somewhere along the line the ticket has been lost meaning i cannont admit it was me who was driving and now my company faces a fine in court...

What your company should have done is returned the NIP/s172 notice to the police nominating you as the driver, and then you would have received your own NIP/s172 request to name yourself.  If you mean that your company would have just passed it on to you saying "Here.  You were the driver.  You deal with it", then your company didn't handle it correctly.  But, if they did do that and you "somehow lost" the ticket, causing them to be prosecuted and fined, they (your company) may not be very happy with you...

Lloyd9637

Thanks for the advice and no my company are aware that they have to face court and i am not in the wrong as it was never forwarded to me from head office to start with. this was back in February and i have only just been told that i must of been speeding because of this summons. 

lisyloo

Lucky you.
looks like you ”got away with it”.

Dr_Crypto

You’ve got away with it. The company lawyer will have to deal with it now and the company will be fined. 

TooManyPoints

....as it was never forwarded to me from head office to start with. 

I don't know your company's size/set up etc. But if their normal process is to forward a "Request for Driver's details" on to the person they suspect was driving in order for them to deal with it, I would be surprised if they have not been caught short before now. As above, they should respond to the request by naming who they think was driving so that person then gets their own request.

Jumblebumble

TooManyPoints said:

....as it was never forwarded to me from head office to start with. 

I don't know your company's size/set up etc. But if their normal process is to forward a "Request for Driver's details" on to the person they suspect was driving in order for them to deal with it, I would be surprised if they have not been caught short before now. As above, they should respond to the request by naming who they think was driving so that person then gets their own request.

If it is the companies normal process then the company are employing  imbeceles who
are overdue a visit to specsavers
I agree because it is my understanding is every NIP tells the recipient  explicitly not to do this but to nominate the driver
The OP has no reason  whatever to  deal with a NIP that is not addressed to them