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Hello fellow VAG owners!
I need some advice relating to a fixed pen ticket i got a few months ago:
I was stupid enough to answer a phone call from work whilst driving - Just my luck i was spotted by a parked up police car.
I was pulled over and issued with a fixed pen for 3 points and 60 pounds. I apologised to the officer and explained that i dont use my phone whilst driving - and i dont! so just my luck that i get caught the first time i do!
Got home paid the fixed pen ticket. Then promptly forgot to submit my DL to the local police station. I eventually remembered 8 days after i was first stopped. When i went down to the police station they told me i was too late and i would recieve a summons.
Offence was on the 16th Feb and only today recieved a summons: and this is where the advice is needed:-
Summons has my name wrong and also has the date of the offence as the 24th Feb??
So technically im not guilty of "using a hand-held mobile telephone" on the 24th April as the summons states. So should i go to court and say im not guilty? Or would the court say stop being so silly a you know its a typo and slap me with a bigger fine/points for trying it on?
Any advice would be welcomed?
I need some advice relating to a fixed pen ticket i got a few months ago:
I was stupid enough to answer a phone call from work whilst driving - Just my luck i was spotted by a parked up police car.
I was pulled over and issued with a fixed pen for 3 points and 60 pounds. I apologised to the officer and explained that i dont use my phone whilst driving - and i dont! so just my luck that i get caught the first time i do!
Got home paid the fixed pen ticket. Then promptly forgot to submit my DL to the local police station. I eventually remembered 8 days after i was first stopped. When i went down to the police station they told me i was too late and i would recieve a summons.
Offence was on the 16th Feb and only today recieved a summons: and this is where the advice is needed:-
Summons has my name wrong and also has the date of the offence as the 24th Feb??
So technically im not guilty of "using a hand-held mobile telephone" on the 24th April as the summons states. So should i go to court and say im not guilty? Or would the court say stop being so silly a you know its a typo and slap me with a bigger fine/points for trying it on?
Any advice would be welcomed?
Seems harsh that you did not get allowed off for being day late but HO/RT1 clearly states this so your fault as it would be at Traffic CJU discretion to let you off.
Sounds like a fair cop to me. I would not contest that you were not on the phone. Admit your liability and don't try and make coppers out to be fools as it was your over-sight that you didn't read form and submit DL on time. Harsh lesson.
Sounds like a fair cop to me. I would not contest that you were not on the phone. Admit your liability and don't try and make coppers out to be fools as it was your over-sight that you didn't read form and submit DL on time. Harsh lesson.
www.pepipoo.com is your friend.
Advice on that site over the last 5 years has saved me 6 points and a £120 parking fine
Advice on that site over the last 5 years has saved me 6 points and a £120 parking fine
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