Not Aware Of Court Case

[chrissa1]

A friend of mine was pulled over by the police back in December for cutting a car up on to a slip road. She had had her car written off the day before by someone pulling out right into her path and had sustained injuries to her arms.
The policeman was very brusque with her and told her to get out of the car as he was finished with her. She had to explain that she couldn’t open the door by herself because of her sore arm.

The next day she moved out of her house to live with her partner and didn’t go back to her address again. She didn’t know that she’d been summoned to court and time passed.

Fast forward to yesterday, when she was pulled over by a policeman’s ANPR that told him she was a disqualified driver and therefore was not insured. Her car was taken off her and she has been told that she has lost her license.

She hadn’t changed her address on her driving licence and therefore the DVLA didn’t know where to find her.

She is going to appeal because she had no idea she was in this much trouble. She needs her car for her livelihood.

What are her chances of her appeal being successful? Thanks.

[bednobs]

how would the anpr know who was driving i wonder?

[chrissa1]

Sorry. She was arrested and then released. She now has a new car which of course, when checked, gave her name and that then came up as, “disqualified.

[bednobs]

but seriously, how did the anpr (a machine) know who was driving. I wonder if she is teling you eveything

[douglas9401]

Oooooh, it's like Perry Mason. :-)

[fiction-factory]

I'm missing something here . For example, as well as not understanding why she was driving the day after in December if she was unable to open a car door due to the injury the day before, I don't see why "The policeman was very brusque with her" is relevant to all this.
I'll look in tomorrow and see if things are any clearer

[Davemano]

So how did her name and address for the new car connect her to the original incident?

[chrissa1]

The ANPR told the policeman today that the car was registered in her name. He then found out from the PNC that she was disqualified, then he pulled her over. She confirmed her name and so and so on.

[Prudie]

Does she know what she was disqualified for?

[chrissa1]

No. That’s my point. She knows now, but if she’d received the letter, of course she would have attended court.

[New Judge]

I don't think the mechanics of how she was detected matter too much. The police have all sorts of cross references to detect disqualified drivers. The fact is she has been detected and if she was not aware of the court action against her then a Statutory Declaration is the way to go.

[chrissa1]

Thank you, NJ. I’ll speak to her tomorrow. X