Hello,
Recently got a NIP with what I think is the wrong location. What should I do next? Mobile van on a C-Road when the NIP says 'high street'.
Got 3 photos in all from the speed van. Two of them were within the speed limit (closer up) and one was not (not by much, further away). Weird?
Thnx
What is the location?
Do you know where you were caught?
Many roads can be labelled as either.
The B4445 in Thame Oxfordshire is also called Park Street
The (Dreadful) Botley Rd in Oxford is actually the A420.
It is possible that the Camera van had not updated its location data from its last position (seen on here before) so in this case maybe the mobile van was previously on the High Street of some town and then moved to the C class road location but did not change the label.
If indeed they are totally different positions and the C Class road is not just another label for the high street in question you should have a getout clause for proceedural errors in the NIP.
Well I would have thought it was fairly simple "IF" they are two seperate locations
Suppose the the person was caught doing excess speed on the said C class rural road while the NIP/172 notice requested that the registered owner divulge the name of the driver on the "High Street" which is at another town some miles away.
The driver can truthfully reply that while they were on the roads driving at that point at no time were they on the High Street location/time stated on the 172 notice. The last similar one we saw on here I recall was in Wales where the locations were way off by umpteen 10's of miles. At that point I would have thought the Police would quietly drop it.
I'm sure others on here can advise on the legality of the police instead then saying - oh yes, sorry that 172 notice was a load of rubbish - here is another one.
I'm sure others on here can advise on the legality of the police instead then saying - oh yes, sorry that 172 notice was a load of rubbish - here is another one.
They could do that but would have to do it within 14 days, so the OP should bear that in mind and not reply until 14 days after the date of the alleged offence.
Just an observation...
The OP gave us half the story in his first and so far only post, well over 24 hours ago.
Someone who is usually more clued up than most asked a very relevant question shortly afterwards.
The OP has so far elected to avoid troubling us with an answer, which has not stopped some who ought to know better, and some perhaps not, from making a lot of noise, providing advice that may or may not be bollox depending on the missing part(s) of the story.
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