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The Flame Pit / Advice please regarding potential NIP for Red X
« on: August 08, 2025, 06:00:15 pm »
Hello, I hope I am posting this properly (in Have I been Caught, The Flame Pit), as I have had trouble finding out how to do it.
1. I am the registered keeper of my vehicle, have lived at the same address for 5+ years, my V5C is up to date and correct and nobody else drives my vehicle.
2. 21 days ago, on the M** a slip road onto it became the 4th lane and not long afterwards, a gantry displayed a move over sign and then a second gantry displayed a Red X. I was not in the slip lane/Red X lane but needed to exit the motorway at the exit after the Red X. As close as I could do so, I crossed the lane to exit as did 2 vehicles in front of me and 5-6 vehicles behind. I was 14 seconds past the Red X gantry where when I moved over. This gantry had 2 HADEC 3 cameras, there were no police about but my dash cam (screenshot only at this stage) shows a National Highways Vehicle in the Red X Lane. This vehicle had joined from the aforementioned slip road.
3. My Royal Mail post is erratic and I am concerned about any NIP getting lost. I assume that the Highways vehicle had cameras and would have captured several vehicles exiting like myself. There is a Met Police portal you can contact to enquire about "tickets' but it is for speeding tickets. Does anyone have experience of chasing an NIP? I do not know for sure, but if it is from footage captured by the Highways Car, for several vehicles, this could take longer than 14 days for the police to process?
I accept that what I did was wrong and would prefer to deal with any NIP now rather than fail to provide my details as the driver and face a court appearance and additional points. I am asking for advice as I am nervous about ringing on contacting the police to chase up an NIP that they may not yet have issued or know about.
Thank you,
Potato.
1. I am the registered keeper of my vehicle, have lived at the same address for 5+ years, my V5C is up to date and correct and nobody else drives my vehicle.
2. 21 days ago, on the M** a slip road onto it became the 4th lane and not long afterwards, a gantry displayed a move over sign and then a second gantry displayed a Red X. I was not in the slip lane/Red X lane but needed to exit the motorway at the exit after the Red X. As close as I could do so, I crossed the lane to exit as did 2 vehicles in front of me and 5-6 vehicles behind. I was 14 seconds past the Red X gantry where when I moved over. This gantry had 2 HADEC 3 cameras, there were no police about but my dash cam (screenshot only at this stage) shows a National Highways Vehicle in the Red X Lane. This vehicle had joined from the aforementioned slip road.
3. My Royal Mail post is erratic and I am concerned about any NIP getting lost. I assume that the Highways vehicle had cameras and would have captured several vehicles exiting like myself. There is a Met Police portal you can contact to enquire about "tickets' but it is for speeding tickets. Does anyone have experience of chasing an NIP? I do not know for sure, but if it is from footage captured by the Highways Car, for several vehicles, this could take longer than 14 days for the police to process?
I accept that what I did was wrong and would prefer to deal with any NIP now rather than fail to provide my details as the driver and face a court appearance and additional points. I am asking for advice as I am nervous about ringing on contacting the police to chase up an NIP that they may not yet have issued or know about.
Thank you,
Potato.