Postal speeding tickets

[sharky1978]

Hello All

I'm new to this site. Looks great, a wealth of information on here!

Well who out there can advise me?

I have a good friend who picked up 2 postal speeding tickets in the space of 3 days, just over 6 months ago. The tickets where fixed penaltys, 3 points and a £60 pound fine each. He aleady had 9 points on his licence so for sure he was going to receive a hefty fine and a ban. He accidently forgot about these tickets and lost the paper work that was sent to him.

He has heard nothing since from the police. A little bird once told me that if they police don't prosecute within 6 months then they cannot convict you of the offence? Is this true? Is he one lucky sod and gotten away with it? Was around the time when Dwight Yorke wriggled out of his speeding offence.

Any ideas or thoughts anyone?

Cheers in advance
James

[onedsla]

I believe the 6 months is to start proceedings, so he may have not heard.

In reality though, if he's really had no correspondence back, IMHO he's got away with it. It would suprise me that the NIPs weren't followed up though - has there been any change of address etc?

[sharky1978]

No he has n't changed address, the vehicle that was caught on camera had actually been sold about a week before both speeding tickets came through to him. My friend was the registered owner though at the time of the offence.

Sorry whats NIP short for ?

Cheers

>> Edited by sharky1978 on Thursday 23 October 11:54

[onedsla]

Notice of Intended Prosicution - ie the letter which says you've been naughty.

[sharky1978]

Ahhh thanks for that, yeah I would of thought they would of followed up with perhaps another letter once the 28 day compliance period had lapsed. But only this time it would be sent recorded delivery. After all royal mail apparently lose around 5 million letters a day!!

[stackmonkey]

BiB may have checked records with the DVLA. I had a parking and a speeding ticket through before for a car I'd recently sold (Speed NIP for 84 in a 50 came on my birthday!) but sent through proof of sale for each and never heard any more.

[stackmonkey]

BiB may have checked records with the DVLA. I had a parking and a speeding ticket through before for a car I'd recently sold (Speed NIP for 84 in a 50 came on my birthday!) but sent through proof of sale for each and never heard any more.

[danhay]

sharky1978 said:

After all royal mail apparently lose around 5 million letters a day!!

Are you sure? Surely we'd notice them piling up in the streets! I could believe they're losing 5 million £s a day though

[sharky1978]

Are you sure? Surely we'd notice them piling up in the streets! I could believe they're losing 5 million £s a day though

5 million may be a few to many, heard it off someone, a quick google search gave the following..

"According to Royal Mail commissioned research, the amount of mail lost due to delivery mistakes has gone down from 500,000 to 280,000 a week in the last year."

Still pretty crap though are n't they!

[danhay]

280,000?
Enough to introduce 'Reasonable Doubt' I'd have thought

[sharky1978]

Well cheers for the posts guys, will pass on your comments to my friend.

Anyone else got any ideas on which way this might go?

Cheers in advance

[sharky1978]

Anyone else know anything that may be useful?

cheers