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Vauxhall Insignia - Requirement to Identify The Driver - shakermaker

Hi

We received a Requirement to Identify the Driver through the post. It shows our car going through a red light in the city centre. We don't remember the incident and it could have been any one of two people driving at the time. We requested photographic evidence which arrived in the post today. It was a rear facing camera though and only shows the back of the car. No driver.

Can anyone advise on the course of action I should take?

Thanks

Vauxhall Insignia - Requirement to Identify The Driver - Peter D

What have you done to identify the driver. ??

Failure to Provide the drivers details can and often does lead to 6 points and a large fine in excess of £500.

The photo is to identify the car not the driver, that is a legal requirment on you.

An MS90 offence code on your licence will cost you dearly on insurance premiums for at least 5 years.

Go to www.Pepipoo.com to learn more. Regards Peter

Edited by Peter D on 23/07/2015 at 16:18

Vauxhall Insignia - Requirement to Identify The Driver - RobJP

If it is a company 'pool' vehicle (where one of a number of drivers could be using it), then the legal onus is on the directors or management to ensure procedures are in place to identify who was driving the car, and when they were driving it (i.e. driver's logbook, the person has to sign the car keys out, and then sign them back in). If no procedures are in place then the people in charge are committing a criminal offence (see link below for more details)

If, on the other hand it is a private vehicle, then it's a lot more complicated. Myself and my wife both drive, and we have 3 vehicles that either of us could be using. We've both got short brown hair, and a camera from the back would struggle to identify which of us was driving - assuming it even took a good enough quality of picture to have a chance of doing so.

There is a defence of having made 'diligent enquiries' - again, go through the link below

If you go here:

www.motorlawyers.co.uk/offences/failing_to_identif...p

then a lot of your questions may be answered, however I can't vouch that the information they supply is accurate.

Vauxhall Insignia - Requirement to Identify The Driver - concrete

Hello RobJP, had the same problem until I grew a beard. That sorted that out!!! Cheers Concrete

Vauxhall Insignia - Requirement to Identify The Driver - skidpan

Hello RobJP, had the same problem until I grew a beard. That sorted that out!!! Cheers Concrete

Some beard if it car be seen in a photograph taken from the back.

Vauxhall Insignia - Requirement to Identify The Driver - slkfanboy

I really don't think it worth the risks of try to claiming you don't know.

On the asumption the car was in the city centre you can check shopping receipts and match them to the day of the week and the activities you likely do on the day of the week. It's likely one of you uses the car more than the other or by checking mobile phone calls and dairies you can trigger memories and enable you to work it out.

Hope this helps

Vauxhall Insignia - Requirement to Identify The Driver - concrete

Hello RobJP, had the same problem until I grew a beard. That sorted that out!!! Cheers Concrete

Some beard if it car be seen in a photograph taken from the back.

Why do you assume that the photograph was taken from the rear of the vehicle? County Durham police regularly photgraph from the front from several vantage points on the A66, good quality ones too.

Never ASSUME: it makes an ASS out of U and ME.

Cheers Concrete

Vauxhall Insignia - Requirement to Identify The Driver - RobJP

To be fair, I did say 'a camera from the back' ... and the reply was related to that.