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Wed 13 Jan 2016 17:28
Application for Name and Address of Driver - GeoffM1

Hi

This is a simple question, I hope!

My company received an "application for name and address of driver" from West Midlands Police on 16/6/15 for the alleged offence of driving without due care and attention. I was the driver of the vehicle though I have no knowledge of what my actual offence may have been, and I am not aware of having driven without due care and attention.

My company provided my details to West Midlands Police on 19/6 15, but since then we have heard nothing back from the police or from anyone else in relation to this.

Can I therefore safely assume that the matter has been dropped, or could I stil be contacted despite the fact that it is almost 7 months since our initial response?

Many thanks

Geoff

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Thu 14 Jan 2016 08:19
Application for Name and Address of Driver - Dwight Van Driver

Section 6 and 1st Schedule Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 allows proceedings for careless driving to be taken within 6 months of evidence coming to the notice of a prosecutor that warrants a prosecution but not over 3 years.

In this case it looks like they have had a complaint and depending on the strength of that complaint and independent evidence will be whether they can extend the normal 6 month limitation on proceedings for summary offence to the 3 year rule.

Normally once supplied with a drivers details (by your firm) they follow up with S172 form to named driver to admit, then obtain drivers version of events before submitting file for CPS decision on prosecution.

You could be lucky and matters NFA or they could be a sting in the tail from an undelivered S172 as they have had no reply and are currenly processing a fail to name offence.

How long is a piece af string?

dvd

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Thu 14 Jan 2016 11:35
Application for Name and Address of Driver - TedCrilly

Why not contact West Midlands Police directly and get the definative answer.......or am I just thinking too hard?

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Thu 14 Jan 2016 14:44
Application for Name and Address of Driver - Dwight Van Driver

Not really Ted but there is a saying about stirring up a hornets nest!!!!!!!!

dvd

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Fri 15 Jan 2016 11:17
Application for Name and Address of Driver - GeoffM1

Not really Ted but there is a saying about stirring up a hornets nest!!!!!!!!

dvd

Thanks dvd - and your comment about the hornet's nest is precisely why I haven't contacted them - let sleeping dogs lie I reckon!!

Geoff

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Fri 15 Jan 2016 23:29
Application for Name and Address of Driver - bathtub tom

Not really a hornet's nest, more like a sloth's nest, if my experience of plod's anything to go by.

Apologies to any BIBs here, but I appreciate your loss of numbers and funding and that's the result of public conception.

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Sat 16 Jan 2016 14:51
Application for Name and Address of Driver - Avant

Public conception?!

Is that happening in public so often as to take up police time? :)

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Sun 17 Jan 2016 09:49
Application for Name and Address of Driver - kerbed enthusiasm

Avant's reply alone is worthy of this forum introducing a 'like' button or an upvote.

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Mon 18 Jan 2016 15:41
Application for Name and Address of Driver - concrete

My perception is that conception is best done in private between concenting adults.

Cheers Concrete

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Wed 20 Jan 2016 12:40
Application for Name and Address of Driver - Peter D

If the address your company provided was wrong or your S.172 was lost in the post then you may have been prosecuted for Failure to Furnish and 6 points put on your licence and a large fine.

Best check on your Licence status on the DVLA web site.

Regards Peter

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Wed 20 Jan 2016 16:38
Application for Name and Address of Driver - slkfanboy

This is what happen to me. I managed to trigger a speeding camera while moving house. On moving I registered my new address for V5 and Driving Licence. 18months later I got a notice saying I had been prosecuted for speeding in an 30 mph with six points!

I phone up to discover they had been writting to my old address and for some reason the post office did not forward the letters.

I asked about the court letter as this has the correct address and they said well "Yes, I guess we should have check our records earlier, before proceeding".

Anyway they proceeded to advise a statutory declaration at the court that I didn't get notified, which I did. The conviction got struck off and I expected them to restart the proceedings, which oldly they never did!

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Wed 20 Jan 2016 13:25
Application for Name and Address of Driver - Brit_in_Germany

My perception is that conception is best done in private between concenting adults.

I have no conception of what your are talking about.

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Thu 21 Jan 2016 09:38
Application for Name and Address of Driver - slkfanboy

I suspect that the poster questions perception that your conception may have been in Germany

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Thu 21 Jan 2016 15:03
Application for Name and Address of Driver - Dwight Van Driver

No perception on conception without contraception - big trouble

dvd

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Fri 22 Jan 2016 15:49
Application for Name and Address of Driver - concrete

The concieved notion is, that the perception of conception, with or without contraception, by consenting adults is simply a matter for those who grasp the original concept.

Concrete

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Fri 22 Jan 2016 15:53
Application for Name and Address of Driver - FP

Since its inception, the reception of this concept is a matter of misconception, owing to faulty interception.

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