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I received a NIP dated 10/7/2024 regarding alleged offences <...>
What is happening <...>

Dunno

Sorry this is the first time posting here. The offences are: “driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road and other public place without due care and attention” and “without reasonable consideration for other persons using the road or place.”

What is mostly intriguing for me is how close the incident was from where the car was parked/where I live. I drive on that road frequently, but on that day (and week actually) I was abroad and no one else has access to my keys.

Does the NIP include a requirement to identify the driver (S172 of RTA)?

If so you must reply to this as to not do so will be a separate offence.

You need to respond to the S172 request with the details (and supporting evidence you have mentioned) of your trip away and details of where the keys were and who had access to the keys / the vehicle whilst you were away.

You presumably had a conditional offer .. or did you?

There is a lot of detail missing, please update the forum for maximum potential assistance.

Apologies again for not giving sufficient info. The letter I received is from the Met police and asks for details of my driving licence and insurance. It then has form 963 - Requirement for name and address of driver. It asks full name of driver, address, location of vehicle at that time and supporting evidence.

The only other copy of the keys to our flat was with the owners of the property (we are private tenants), and then the car key was hidden in our bedroom. The only way would be for our landlord to come to the flat (they didn’t know we were abroad), find the keys and drive our car without our consent, which would be very odd (and a crime). We don’t believe this has happened.

We will respond to this letter, however we don’t have proof that the car was parked near our building - we only have proof we were abroad. No CCTV in this street.
Is there anything I’m missing?

And what do you think happened- car cloning, someone framing us… we though someone hit our car and was trying to blame us, but the location of the alleged accident is intriguing.
There is CCTV where they claim the accident happened, but I was informed by my insurance that CCTV deletes footage after 30 days, do you know if this is true?

Thank you so much in advance.

Can I ask anyone for footage, to confirm if this was our car?

Thank you everyone, I’ll speak to the insurance to request the pictures/footage

Another possibility:

My car was on the same place I left it, without one of the side mirror covers when I arrived back in the country, but no other evidence of any incident

Another driver may have hit your side mirror and in doing so, damaged their own one and as some of these can be horrendously expensive to replace, decided to try pulling a fast one and put in an insurance claim stating that your vehicle was being driven and hit their car, damaging their mirror.