Court Summons Received Despite Returning NIP

[cobstar]

A colleague's wife has just received a court summons re a speeding fine despite returning the NIP identifying herself as the driver. Will she have to go to court or is there some mechanism for dealing with a NIP that has gone astray?

Is the fact that she has a foreign driving licence an issue?

[cobstar]

Managed to answer my own question - she has to go to court because she holds a foreign driving licence.

So will she just have to attend and pay standard fine?

>> Edited by cobstar on Tuesday 23 March 10:00

[li'l pugs]

Could also be the speed. I got an NIP filled it in identifying myself, and still had to attend court....May have been something to do with 81 MPH in a 50 MPH limit.....ooops.

On another related point. Bell 990 international. Superb radar detector, but don't drop it !!!!! It looks like it's still working, but isn't !

[M@H]

cobstar said:

Managed to answer my own question - she has to go to court because she holds a foreign driving licence. So will she just have to attend and pay standard fine? >> Edited by cobstar on Tuesday 23 March 10:00

I take it she is a UK resident though.... they can't summons you from another country can they..??

[cobstar]

M@H said:

I take it she is a UK resident though.... they can't summons you from another country can they..??

Yes - married to a British citizen. They've taken advice from the magistrates' court and been told that she just needs to write a letter explaining she has an overseas (European) driving licence, including a copy of her licence and pleading guilty. She also has to state that she's never held a UK driving licenc.e

She'll then be fined in her absence - £60 I think. She was doing 30+ in a 30 mph zone.

[Bobbins]

cobstar said:

She also has to state that she's never held a UK driving licenc.e

I thought you could only drive in the UK on a foreign licence for a limited period of time? 12 months?
(I realise that she may have been here for <12mths).

Pity she didn't fill in the NIP with the (foreign) address on her licence - she'd have got off scott free then.

[volvod5_dude]

She could leave the country for a bit. Least she won't get points.