Free Traffic Legal Advice

Thanks for that link NJ. I'm only usually at the sharp end of such matters on buses!

I'd suggest the revenue inspectors are a bit off-ish as they've seen and heard it all before. I've also been watching too many editions of "fare evaders" on TV just lately!

with respect it's no good putting it on a rail forum, the daughter was travelling on a bus. As someone who has driven buses for far too many years, I have some sympathy for your daughter, but fare evasion, and that includes not being able to show a valid free pass, is endemic on London buses. Presumably she was caught by a revenue inspector on the bus? They've heard every possible excuse so many times, excuses tht have been around since the days of the introduction of horse buses by George Shillibeer in the 1830s. They just don't wash, I'm sorry to say.Was she given the opportuity to pay a are to the drier by contactless card? that is sometimes allowed.

But as others have said, TfL is very unfeeling for the likes of people who make a genuine mistake.

Thanks for that Andy. In the 53 years I've been bus driving, it's the first time i've been nicked fr speeding in a bus.

On the A22 going out of East Grinstead the road is uphill, then dips slightly. With a full load of passengers, with it tipping down with rain,force 8 gale, the camera is about 100m beyond the brow of the hill. My time was better spent trying to see where the road was than looking at the speedometer. It was also close to midnight and there's some awful pot holes to dodge. 2 buses on that service blew out tyres on pot holes that day. I drive about 40,000 miles a year! Not to worry.

I got caught on a speed camera back in January just outside East Grinstead, 36 in a 30 driving a bus. My employer quickly passed the matter over to me with a s172 notice. I filled that in and sent it back admitting I was driving. The ticket office sent me the form to pay up which i have mislaid! I don't remember keeping a copy, but trying to get it paid before the deadline which is probably this week. I can't find any contact details for the Sussex police speeding ticket office.

What's my best line of approach? I've looked onine but no hone number, and the online form needs the reference number which I don't have.

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/tenterden/news/i-was-flabbergasted-council-under-fire-again-for-ticketin-337075/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQS7tBleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB6Wmg1TUtKZmxPdHUwSGZsc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHj4g_NP6VHLGG7XonLjLxuqdvZvvtUivN3rUH_YVOksIqAjaey0c_f0J85GN_aem_56g5t-NYp6ijMlMfgYOeew

The letter only INVITE you as the registered keeper to either provide the name and address of the driver or pay up. The same bit of paper also ays you are the registered keeper. Providing you haven't told them who the driver is, there is n legal requirement to reveal that. No doubt someone with better knowledge of whether this complies with POFA or nt, where they can't transfer liability form the driver who is at the moment unknown to them, to the registered keeper.  Don't tell them Pike!

It seems a bit odd that they can't deal with you as you're not the registered keeper yet expect you to pay the parking charge. Who is the registered keeper, who is the owner?

It might just be that Enterprise will have your UK licence details and address on their hire form and the authorities there will write to you in the UK.Unless you'r planning on going back there soon I doubt you'll hear any more about it as theres no way of chasing foreign debts through the UK courts.

If it's any help, I had an Enterprise hire car in Belgium last year and they advised me I had 2 speeding tickets. but nothing ever received t my home address as the helpful chap in the office somehow took my address down incorrectly from my passport and driving licence! It cost me the €25 admin fee through my credit card.