A man will today be sentenced for trying to avoid a speeding conviction by claiming someone else was driving his car.
Police say this is a growing problem and he's just one of the hundreds of people who have tried to lie their way out of getting penalty points on their licences.
Have you ever lied to escape motoring fines or penalty points?
2006-11-08 20:44:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Denial is the best defense in driving violations. The policemen must improve their methods to identify the culprits.
2006-11-08 20:48:03 · answer #1 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would just admit what I have done but then I work in the criminal justice system so I can't really say anything else!!! I also know that it goes in your favour if you plead guilty at the earliest opportunity. If, for example, I decided to stab my husband (tempting at times!!!) and pleaded not guilty and it went to trial and I was found guilty by jury, I would receive the maximum penalty (e.g. no reduction) but if I pleaded guilty at the magistrates Court (before going to Crown Court to be sentenced) I would receive a reduction of one third of the prison sentence. This is because I have saved the victim from going through the trauma of the trial and saved public money and, more importantly, accepted responsiblity for my actions.
2006-11-09 08:17:00 · answer #2 · answered by willowbee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I´d do ANYTHING to avoid prosecution, because it is a two tear legal system. One for the normal person, and one for the rich and important.
Politicians get done for fraud like actions and only have to step down (into a different office), you go and don´t pay your taxes, forge something and you´ll be away for a decade.
They throw old gannies in jail because they can´t pay thier bills, due to the fact that they overtax the pension, which has already been taxed when they earned it in the first place. And some child molester gets 5 years. Pathetic!!!
Ill do all I can to avoid this system, the black market is the future.
2006-11-08 21:20:40 · answer #3 · answered by Ganymede 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
These are trick i have heard of before....
If you get caught speeding say that you are unsure of who was driving the car.. ( which was my case)
the police will reply saying that they have photographic evidence ( usually from behind or indistingushable) ....
you ask them for a copy of the photographic evidence as then you can decide who was driving the car.... ( if it looks like you.. admitt it or if you cannot recognise the photo tell them that you are still unsure ..)
otherwise get a driving license from somewhere outside UK as penalty points cannot be transferred
2006-11-08 21:03:06 · answer #4 · answered by rup 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have come across cases of people who had the nerve to register their vehicles in the name of a fictitious person (a name just proximate enough to their own for the mail to be delivered to them) and then, when they received a summons, come to court to make a statutory declaration that they knew nothing of the person named on the summons delivered to their address! It is an old trick and a reprehensible one. The solution is for the authorities to clamp their cars when they park in a prohibited area. They then have a problem getting them unclamped, as they are not the person to whom the car is registered....
2006-11-09 05:01:10 · answer #5 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I haven't need to, but I do know of someone who has.
If the police got off their backsides and started chasing criminals instead of relying on cameras there would be no doubt as to who was driving at the time, therefore eliminating the whole phenomenon of people's partners (usually the wife) 'taking the points'.
2006-11-08 20:49:08 · answer #6 · answered by mark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a firm believer that the police expect you to lie in these matters. You can't get the benefit of the doubt if you tell the truth. So in essence you are being encouraged to lie.
2006-11-08 21:03:01 · answer #7 · answered by justpatagn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the type of persecution. Is it false cases, murder case, rape, gang robbery, etc, etc. people act according to the degree of the offence. Simply do not compare small offences with everything. Also do not think those inside jails are criminals and outside are gentlemen. U find more gentlemen inside than outside. This is true thruought the world. USA is no exception.
2006-11-08 21:01:57 · answer #8 · answered by Loganathan Raja Rajun R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
every trick has been tried in the book and to attempt such a lame act in a COURT OF LAW normally results in the judge being annoyed by you and him giving you maximum fines and penalties.
owe up to your mistakes and life will go easier on you.
no one likes a liar.
2006-11-08 20:47:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
why admit anything make them prove it was you.thats as much as i am saying you might be a cop.
2006-11-09 08:42:37 · answer #10 · answered by delta9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋