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Hit and run defences/self representation?

  • 06-06-2011 03:00PM
    #1
    AceHi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭


    Any advice would be appreciated.

    1. What kind of recourse would be available to a person who has allegedly committed an offence under section 106 RTA for failure to give information etc? What if the damage is quite insignificant and the person did not know that they had damaged property and therefore did not know that there was anything to report. Are there any defences to this charge?

    2. Also, I have read on other posts that representing oneself is a bad idea. However a person cannot be granted legal aid if it is a traffic offence, is this correct? If a person is representing themselves what do they have to do or who do they have to notify? What is the procedure?

    Thanks in advance


Comments

  • #2
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    Did the person know they had actually been in an accident?


  • #3
    AceHi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭AceHi


    No. The damage to the car was very small they must not have felt it, if they done it at all. They maintain that they didn't but the Gardai have glass from a smashed tail light from the car that supposedly hit the parked car and it matches glass found at the parked car, and although the owner of the parked car was not in it she says that she saw it happen. But it happened in a housing estate and the lady would have been familiar with the car so she could have jumped to conclusions when she saw the car parked there with the smashed tail light.


  • #4
    Zambia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭Zambia


    If the tail light smashed then they felt the hit.


  • #5
    AceHi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭AceHi


    Well they reckon that the tail light was already smashed and glass fell out in the housing estate and the lady saw this and presumed that car had done it and rang the Gardai and said she saw it happen to ensure charges were pressed so someone would fix her car. Anyway I'm not trying to get into whether this person is guilty or not i'll leave that to the judge I just want to know are there any defences available given the circumstances and what is the procedure for representing oneself.


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