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Received someone else's speeding fine.

  • 29-01-2016 11:53pm
    #1
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭


    Got a fixed penalty charge in my letterbox this morning. Sent to my address but bearing someone else's name.

    Opened it anyway and it was a penalty demand for speeding. The car reg. no. wasn't mine either.

    I phones the Gardai in Thurles explaining the situation. The Garda wasn't sure how to handle it and told me to hold the line and she'd get back to me, which she eventually did, and asked me to write a covering letter and send back the fine to Thurles in the pre-addressed envelope, and no, it wasn't free-post.

    I said I wasn't happy to have to pay for their mistake and she agreed, and suggested I drop it into the local Garda station, which I did.

    Looks like some guy was chancing it, giving a wrong address which happened to be mine.

    When the garda checked the reg. it seems the car was sold recently too.

    I wonder what sort of rap this smart-ass will receive when and if he is prosecuted for giving false information to the Siochana?


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  • #2
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,733 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
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    Did the gardai not just check the ownership of the car and chase it up that way? Talk about poor processes, simplest way is chase the cars owner not the address given by the driver. I'd have just ignored it or at most sent it back saying nobody at this address with that name.


  • #3
    Comhrá
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭Comhrá


    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Did the gardai not just check the ownership of the car and chase it up that way? Talk about poor processes, simplest way is chase the cars owner not the address given by the driver. I'd have just ignored it or at most sent it back saying nobody at this address with that name.

    They did, but the car had been sold on since the offence was committed. On their computer, a different owner was shown, but I got the impression they were going to work starting from the current registered owner, to trace the offender.


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