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i got this post off the nissansilvia.com forums. i thought this was a pretty clever technique so i thought i'd share it wit yall so here goes
Thought I might share this as it might help some of you avoid those pesky fines and demerits....
in late April I received a $130 speeding fine in the mail. According to the attaached letter my car had been clocked at 71km/h in a 60km/h zone on the 29th of December , almost 4 months previously. Being the holiday period, it was also double demerits. Of course I was not happy with this, and thought I'd argue the point a bit. To be honest I wasn't all that hopeful of a result, but I thought at least by contesting I could avoid paying the fine for a bit longer!
I sent the NSW police a letter, stating that more than one person drives my car regularly, and because of the time taken in informing me of the fine, it was unreasonable for them to expect me to remember who had been driving the vehicle on the date of the alleged offence, and that they should therefore reconsider the fine. Yesterday I received a letter back stating that whilst they believe that the offence was correctly reported, they have now decided to only issue me with a caution; meaning that both the fine and demerits have been waived!
Now I recon the cops don't let people off with cautions just because they're feeling nice that day, so I think despite what they claimed about the offence being correctly reported, the real reason they let me off with a caution is that if I had decided to take the dispute to court the courts would probably had ruled in my favour.
So if you are ever in the same position and the police are slack with notifying you of an alleged offence, argue the point; it seems to have worked for me!
Thought I might share this as it might help some of you avoid those pesky fines and demerits....
in late April I received a $130 speeding fine in the mail. According to the attaached letter my car had been clocked at 71km/h in a 60km/h zone on the 29th of December , almost 4 months previously. Being the holiday period, it was also double demerits. Of course I was not happy with this, and thought I'd argue the point a bit. To be honest I wasn't all that hopeful of a result, but I thought at least by contesting I could avoid paying the fine for a bit longer!
I sent the NSW police a letter, stating that more than one person drives my car regularly, and because of the time taken in informing me of the fine, it was unreasonable for them to expect me to remember who had been driving the vehicle on the date of the alleged offence, and that they should therefore reconsider the fine. Yesterday I received a letter back stating that whilst they believe that the offence was correctly reported, they have now decided to only issue me with a caution; meaning that both the fine and demerits have been waived!
Now I recon the cops don't let people off with cautions just because they're feeling nice that day, so I think despite what they claimed about the offence being correctly reported, the real reason they let me off with a caution is that if I had decided to take the dispute to court the courts would probably had ruled in my favour.
So if you are ever in the same position and the police are slack with notifying you of an alleged offence, argue the point; it seems to have worked for me!
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