Vehicle documents

[Mallaig]

During an office discussion regarding placing insurance details in company pool cars, one person said if you were stopped for an alleged motoring offence and produced documentation at the scene it could be used as evidence against you if it was to proceed to court. No one had ever heard of this or could see how proving the legality of the vehicle could contribute to guilt of an offence. Anyone any idea?

[gouldc]

I'm not sure about this - I've seen the adverts for the book (allegedly) written by an ex-traffic cop explaining the various loopholes, etc, in the system.

One of the lines to draw you into buying the book is something along the lines of ''why you should never give your documents to the police when stopped even if you have them on you'' - was never sure why.

Someone will clarify, but under the Road Traffic Act, technically you should have certain documents with you when driving, but the police allow you the 7 days on a producer instead - not sure what they could do if you had correctly registered, insured, taxed, and MOT'd a car if you were stopped for speeding for example?

[sigma]

If ANPR can show a vehicle as not having MOT or insurance etc then surely the same system can show that it has the correct documentation and you wouldn't need to produce them at a police station.

[f86sabrejet]

this looks interesting
http://www.roadsupervisors.net/aesf.your-right s.htm

[Mallaig]

Thanks for the replies. Dancairo, when I said "proving the legality of the vehicle" I was trying to say as all vehicles require insurance, providing proof i.e. insurance certificate at the time (when stopped) wouldn't contribute to guilt if prosecuted for an offence or would it?

[gouldc]

f86 - that's the stuff I was talking about. Seems like a load of crap to me, but I've got away with speeding once by pleading ignorance to the speed I was travelling at - quite helpful when most of the cars by me don't have video equipment in them!