Speeding in a company car, everything missed, court date soon. what now?

[kindai]

Ring up the court and ask to make a statutory declaration you havent received any paperwork which kind of puts it back to the start where he can just plead guilty and hopefully get the lesser of the fine/points.

 

[gbgt2]

Guess it depends on the car, I've never had anything that would be described as a performance car so maybe they don't spend anytime making the speedo's accurate at higher speeds!

GPS 178mph reads 185mph on the speedo in a Porsche GT3 RS. So Porsche speedo's are pretty accurate (as an example). Other performance cars definitely less so

 

[Diddums]

Need a better timeline here.

Who is named on the V5? The company or the driver?
What is the court appearance for? Just speeding, failure to name or both. This is really important.

Usually, if the NIP hasn't been replied to then the charge will be failure to name the driver and the speeding offence. The S172 offence carries 6 points and has some implications for insurance.

If the company hasn't made the driver aware of the offence until now, he would have a defence against the S172, but would still be liable for the speeding. He might even be able to do a statutory declaration.

If the company never responded to the NIP at all, then indeed they can be prosecuted along with relevant officers of the company, e.g. the company secretary, but the driver would still be liable for the speeding.
From what you've described, the driver will be done for 3points and £100, not sure if 87 will get an awareness course. The company could still be prosecuted for the S172 so suggest you take it more seriously.

You need to visit pepipoo for advice but you need a clear timeline of when things were received, when they were replied to, who is being charged and who is named on the NIP and V5 document otherwise this is all guess work.

Company.
Failure to name.
Driver is aware, however he only found out about two weeks ago.
I'll just leave them to it tbh. Not my problem really, more curious than anything.

 

[Deleted member 68110]

The latter.

The car isn't leased, it's company owned.
Our post system is unnecessarily complicated, we have offices all over the world and stuff gets lost very easily. It's a sensitive topic in the office and something I've been trying to change for ages with no luck.

Sounds like the sort of company ****-up that might actually prompt the improvements you've been pushing for.

 

[Demon]

GPS 178mph reads 185mph on the speedo in a Porsche GT3 RS. So Porsche speedo's are pretty accurate (as an example). Other performance cars definitely less so

My old GSXR-1000 was limited to 186mph/300kph, that was only 179 on my Garmin GPS.. close but annoyingly I was missing out on 7 MPH!

I thought some modern cars (E.g. BMW) actually have correction factors based on GPS or similar? The X3 we have always reads 2-3 MPH from the real speed no matter if doing 30 or 80.. I've turned on the correction option where it's only 1MPH out over a reasonable speed range..

Ring up the court and ask to make a statutory declaration you havent received any paperwork which kind of puts it back to the start where he can just plead guilty and hopefully get the lesser of the fine/points.

If that's an option, I'd try that, I got pinged doing 90 at Christmas and was relatively happy I only got 3 points and £100 fine and it's not really affected the insurance that much either..

 

[Akagi]

My S60 was reading well off the end of the clock (probably 170) at a GPS 155.