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DC summons - car modified - lowered

  • 03-02-2020 09:05AM
    #1
    CSween133
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭


    Hello,
    I received a court summons in the post for a dangerously defective vehicle I was driving a while back. I only borrowed the car of a friend as my own car blew the engine as I was going to Dublin for the week for work and I was stopped. The car was lowered but had tax and test and I was insured, just wondering what sort of outcome should I be expecting for a car being lowered.

    Thanks


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  • #2
    randomrb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭randomrb


    One of the questions they ask when you get insurance is has your car been modified, unless you informed your insurer that you had lowered the car you were driving with no insurance and could be charged with that


  • #3
    nuac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,767 ✭✭✭nuac


    Thread title amended


  • #4
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,035 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    randomrb wrote: »
    One of the questions they ask when you get insurance is has your car been modified, unless you informed your insurer that you had lowered the car you were driving with no insurance and could be charged with that

    OP said he was insured, we don't know if he was covered under his own policy or the car owner's policy. If the latter, your point applies.


  • #5
    28064212
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,130 ✭✭✭✭28064212


    54.—(1) A person who drives a mechanically propelled vehicle in a public place while there is a defect affecting the vehicle which he knows of or could have discovered by the exercise of ordinary care and which is such that the vehicle is, when in motion, a danger to the public shall be guilty of an offence.
    (2) Where a mechanically propelled vehicle is driven in a public place while there is a defect affecting the vehicle which the owner thereof knows of or could have discovered by the exercise of ordinary care and which is such that the vehicle is, when in motion, a danger to the public, such owner shall be guilty of an offence.
    ...
    (4) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a class A fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or to both.
    Both owner and driver are responsible. Class A fine is a maximum of €5,000. Get a solicitor

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  • #6
    mynamejeff
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭mynamejeff


    was the car seized and examined by a PSV man ? in order to certify it as dangerous and defective ?


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  • #7
    CSween133
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27 ✭CSween133


    mynamejeff wrote: »
    was the car seized and examined by a PSV man ? in order to certify it as dangerous and defective ?

    Yes it was, results were about the suspension both back and front being replaced with coilovers


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