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Originally Posted by jambutty
As much as I agree with you ***Mr D*** there are many scenarios where you as the registered keeper will not know who is driving your car.
Here’s just one.
Your wife/partner, son and daughter are all included on your insurance and they set off to visit granny a couple of hundred miles away. You can’t go because you have to stay at home. They share the driving there and back but you won’t know when the driver is changed. Somewhere along the way they get clocked. A week or ten days later you get ‘that letter’. You ask your family who was driving when but they cannot remember who it was or they cannot agree who was driving at the time of the offence.
The court does not accept your story and you get the points etc. Is that fair?
This is a crackpot law that drives a coach and horses right through the basic tenet of English law.
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In that case though, with it being Family, someone must have a idea who was driving, even if you narrowed it down to two of them and flipped a coin.
There are a few circumstances ie when its a company car where your argument would be fair but for the general Public someone should be accountable. as the owner should know who was in there car at that time or have a very good idea who it was. Plus it would also make you more carefull who you lent your car to.