Who gets the points?

Factual Questions
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Scenario: I have a car that is insured for ‘any’ driver. To my knowledge and with my permission, there are six people (family, neighbours or friends) who know that they can use it whenever they wish and they all do, reasonably regularly.

I receive a letter from the police stating that they have photographic evidence of the car doing 45 in a 30 limit.

I know that I was not driving the car at the stated time/place but was at home, alone, with no witnesses. The other six all claim that they were not driving it either.

It’s difficult for me to prove that I wasn’t driving(assuming that I cannot provide evidence that I was somewhere else), and the police are now left with partial evidence only - a photogarph with no testimony or admission.

What do the police do with the licence points and the fine if no one will admit to the offence? To whom do they allocate them?

I had this debate with some colleagues last night. One of them has just received such a notice and it provoked quite a debate with many strident opinions on the law. I’d like to know the truth if possible and so whilst I may well appreciate your opinions, a cite would be appreciated much more.

P.S. I’m talking UK here but I’d be interested in the legal situation elsewhere.

2

At a guess (IANAL), I would say that they would go to the person in whose name the car is registered - even if they can prove they were elsewhere…

Gp

3

Police in the US would not charge any points in this situation, they’d just mail a bill for the fine to the owner’s address.

4

How could you have photographic evidence of speeding?

5

It’s those red-light cameras. Not only they take pictures of red-light runners, they take 'em of speeders too! A radar gun activates the camera.

Just kidding about the red-light cameras.

6

In Alberta, the registered owner of the vehicle gets the ticket. No demerit points are given.

7

I don’t have an answer for the OP, but on the point of photographic evidence.

I am not exactly sure of how they work, but in the UK there are speed cameras that take a pic of a car that is going over the speed limit.

My WAG would be one of two things. Either there is a beam that is broken by the car and a computer works out how fast the car is travelling, then the camera take a pic, or the camera takes two pics and the time between them will be used to work out how fast the car is travelling. At this point I should say that the road is marked in front of the camera for about 20 feet or so with ‘hash’ marks and the road name (ie A34 or something) so they can tell where it was and possibly use the hash marks to measure the distance the car has travelled in a certain time.

/WAG

I tried to find some info on the web about this, but drew a blank. If I find anything which tells me how they work, I will post a cite.

TTFN
Rick