Why do so many people take the fine?

[saaby93]

Would you have done same as this poster?

poster said:

I was pulled over in Gt Yarmouth in early december in a drink drive check point and was told i was doing 38mph in a 30mph so was given a SP30 with £60 fine.
I later checked as i thought it was a 40mph road and the section i was caught was a 40mph road not 30mph after checking with a lawyer was basicly told i may still be out of pocket if i thought it so i took the fine. I was told at the time that payment could only be made by Cheque to a court in Southend as they were moving all fine payments to them. So i sent a payment by cheque by post to them within the 28 days.
Today i recieve a court notice that i have failed to pay within 28 days and the fine has increased to £90. I rang the norwich number on the letter to be told that the Southend court office is a mess at the moment due to the move and have a backlog, the Norwich court will chase them(southend) to see if they payment is being processed by them and will cancel the £90 bill if so, but if southend court have lost it i would have to still pay the £90 not the £60. The whole system is just a mess.

from the Norwich evening news
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/the_18mph_taxi...

How long would you have gone along with the process or at what point do you take a stand?

Edited by saaby93 on Tuesday 29th January 22:37

[EDLT]

The taxi driver probably had 9 points already.

[MissChief]

Was the cheque cashed? I would certainly have written a sternly worded letter.

[saaby93]

^^^^a stern letter about the 40 limit or losing the cheque?

EDLT said:

The taxi driver probably had 9 points already.

Sorry it wasnt about the taxi driver
But same thing applies

Edited by saaby93 on Tuesday 29th January 22:34

[poing]

Apart from all the obviously bad stuff from this the bit that really bugged me in that story was that he will only get up to 75% of his legal costs back, despite proving he was completely innocent and the equipment was faulty. They should be paying him ffs.