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Worried I may be a fugitive at large!

  • 07-07-2016 4:48pm
    #1
    3rdDegree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭


    We moved house back in 2007 and at the time, we thought we'd informed everyone of our change of address. One thing we didn't do was fill out the new address on the back of the Vehicle Registration Certificate. We did inform the Tax Office of our new address though so have been taxing the cars at the new address since..

    Now I'm worried about those times I thought I may have sped through a few speed traps. Would any notice of fines and penalties have been sent to the old address? Could I be a wanted man and not even know it?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    corglass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭corglass


    Go to your local Garda station and ask them.

    Anything else is speculation but you probably already knew that


  • #3
    3rdDegree
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭3rdDegree


    Didn't realise I could contact the gards about this. Rang my local station and they checked both my wife's and my cars. Nothing. The air tastes a little fresher and the sun looks a little brighter!


  • #4
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,044 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    GDY151


    The address the car is registered to as what is written on the VLC is where all speeding fines will go.


  • #5
    bricky06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭bricky06


    On a related note, does anyone know how soon after being seen by a Gard with a speed gun you would get a notice in the post? I thought I may have been caught a few weeks back but think I would have heard by now?!


  • #6
    selectamatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,091 ✭✭✭selectamatic


    Garda with a speed gun has to follow you and stop you to give ya points or have another Garda further up the road stop ya. They're not like a speed van or Gatso van.


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  • #7
    mgbgt1978
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,261 ✭✭✭mgbgt1978


    3rdDegree wrote: »
    We moved house back in 2007 and at the time, we thought we'd informed everyone of our change of address. One thing we didn't do was fill out the new address on the back of the Vehicle Registration Certificate. We did inform the Tax Office of our new address though so have been taxing the cars at the new address since..

    Now I'm worried about those times I thought I may have sped through a few speed traps. Would any notice of fines and penalties have been sent to the old address? Could I be a wanted man and not even know it?

    Thanks

    It seems odd that your local motor tax office didn't tell you that you were obliged to fill out a 'change of particulars' form. An address change can even be done online nowadays, at the time of taxing the vehicle.
    Anyway, glad to hear that you're not on the The Gardai's 10 most wanted list....:)


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