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Good afternoon everybody, I’m posting on behalf of a young person who has only held his license for Three months, he is 18 years old and generally a very good and responsible person.

He usually takes out temporary insurance on a 24 hour basis from his parents insurance company. The insurance is very reasonable at £5.60 for 24 hours and yesterday he did just that however, he neglected to notice that the payment required him to open the bank application on his phone or computer to validate the payment and proceeded to drive the vehicle, having omitted this final step, it was an error of judgement or haste.

He was later, stopped in the vehicle as the vehicle had no valid MOT. The officer checked and saw that the vehicle was insured by his mother, but not himself. The boy explained that he had 24 hour temporary insurance and the officer agreed that this does not appear on the Insurance database and required him to produce evidence of insurance which he could not do, as the evidence would have been emailed to either his mothers or father’s email accounts which he did not have access to . His father received a phone call from the boy requesting that he checked the email and screenshot a copy of the temporary insurance cover note to him. The father checked the email, but no such email was presents the mother was occupied and could not be contacted..

The officer liked the boy and gave him the opportunity to produce the document at a police station within seven days.

As it transpires, he did not have insurance cover because of his hasty escape after having thought that he had booked it online, and he is now faced with a dilemma.

My question is that when producing documents at a police station, do the police validate the documents by contacting the insurance company or is it mainly an administration Exercise and Are they satisfied with just visually inspecting the cover note?

This is temporary cover, and as such does not appear on the Insurance database.

The officer explained that he no longer issues these producer documents and that they are pretty much antiquated, so another thing that crosses my mind is what would happen if he did not produce the documents are they so old that it would be forgotten and not acted upon?

I’ve attached the image of the back of the PCN, the only error is the colour of the vehicle is wrong on the pcn



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Dear All, I received this PCN regarding me driving in a clean air zine without having paid.

In all honesty I had not even realised that I was in a clean air zone in the first place. I had travelled from Liverpool where we dont have one and I am not aware of the issues and formalities surrounding them.

I wouuld have thought that I would get a warning as a first offence rather thant the £120 fine

Is there anything i can do ? any representation I can make ?



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Dear All, I received 3 speeding tickets while in France - Corsica to be specific.
What should I do ? I understand that they cannot beenforced in the UK since brexit
so what would be the consequence of not paying and ignoring ? Is there a valid representation ?

I have attached a copy of one of them

Thanks in advance

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Quote from: RocketRonnieRadox on November 27, 2023, 08:42:06 pm

as for my bumper being over the yellow lines I was under the impression that it has to be a wheel.

I'm afraid you're mistaken and I would not risk the discount on that point. If you give us a link to the exact spot on Google Street View, I'll check it against The Parking Places and Controlled Parking Zone (Liverpool) Order 2009 to see if the road markings match up to the order.

As for the other one, you have much better chances but it is essential that you get something in writing from the bank and/or the app provider, otherwise the council will say that you've made it all up.

Many thanks here is a link

https://maps.app.goo.gl/npvyjJpZ5HGFEQms6

Your third photo down has to be the decider. A clearly shown area of re-surfaced carriageway, with the double yellow lines at one end and the parking bay markings at the other end. So nothing to indicate where the parking bay ends nor the yellow lines; some unknown distance along the new tarmac !

So I have a case ?

Photos for PCN LV12316578:



You've not answered the question of what you were doing while your vehicle was parked there? It's obviously overhanging the DYLs, even though we can't say to what extent.

Photos for LV11578728:



Where were you while trying to buy a session on your phone? The machine with the location code is right next to the van?

Also the traffic order is The Parking Places and Controlled Parking Zone (Liverpool) Order 2009 and if you can give us a google street view link to the exact spot where you parked, we can check whether the road markings are where they should be.

I was going to a timed appointment.

Yes I used the code on that machine next to the van.

I went there Covent garde4n tonight and took pics with few cars.

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