caught speeding over six months ago
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Hi this questions probably been asked lots before,but i was caught and pulled over for speeding over 6 months ago now,at 102.3mph which i have to say i dont normaly do(bad day).Should i still expect a letter through the door and where do i stand please.Any comments will be much appreciated.Roper
Roper
As you were pulled and the speed mentioned I take it that you were not offered the Conditional Offer (Fixed penalty) and a Court case in the offing with a bad smack.
Plod would go back to his station and submit an offence report which should wend its way to Prosecutions and an information (request for issue of summons) laid. This, for speeding has to be done within 6 months of the offence (known as limitation on proceeding). Now the horrible part is that having laid the information then they can take time over the 6 months, providing the information has been laid,to make up and have served the summons. It is therefore possible that you should dread the Postman some time longer.
OR
If you rub your rabbits foot the file may have got lost in the system - very doubtful but if this is the case then wow you are a lucky bloke.
In exchange for these comments how about easing off on the right foot?
DVD
As you were pulled and the speed mentioned I take it that you were not offered the Conditional Offer (Fixed penalty) and a Court case in the offing with a bad smack.
Plod would go back to his station and submit an offence report which should wend its way to Prosecutions and an information (request for issue of summons) laid. This, for speeding has to be done within 6 months of the offence (known as limitation on proceeding). Now the horrible part is that having laid the information then they can take time over the 6 months, providing the information has been laid,to make up and have served the summons. It is therefore possible that you should dread the Postman some time longer.
OR
If you rub your rabbits foot the file may have got lost in the system - very doubtful but if this is the case then wow you are a lucky bloke.
In exchange for these comments how about easing off on the right foot?
DVD
This one is quite easy really.
If you didn't get a verbal NIP (notice of intended prosecution) at the time, then they had 14 days to send a written one to the address of the registered keeper of the car.
There is also a time limit of 6 months in which to raise a summons with the court.
So - if you didn't get an NIP, you cannot be prosecuted. Even if you did and a summons hasn't been raised, your case has 'time expired' and no court.
If you didn't get a verbal NIP (notice of intended prosecution) at the time, then they had 14 days to send a written one to the address of the registered keeper of the car.
There is also a time limit of 6 months in which to raise a summons with the court.
So - if you didn't get an NIP, you cannot be prosecuted. Even if you did and a summons hasn't been raised, your case has 'time expired' and no court.
Cheers for the reply's people.See the weird thing is,he didn't show me the tape of me driving at said speed just a figure on the screen with it running live i.e traffic still going past.I wasn't made to sign anything and wasn't given a producer just told he was going to report it and having been stopped at that speed I would have thought the case would have been dealt with fairly quickly.But theirs no point worrying what will happen will happen,just like to know why it's taking so long.
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