Getting prosecuted from Dashcam?
- Thread starter BUDFORCE
- Start date
Soldato
The police dont usually bother unless its pretty obvious that the pass was dangerous. The guy sending in 4 to 5 videos a week, inst getting 4 or 5 people convicted every week
Soldato
- Joined
- 23 May 2006
- Posts
- 7,064
i agree.... at the same time i guess, the police know they would never prosecute anyone if they left that loop hole in. (unless they caught the drivers mug in the photo)Sometimes I can't remember what I did 5 minutes ago... need I say more?
3 people can drive our car. If you asked me who was driving at X time, X weeks ago, I may very well struggle to remember in some circumstances, especially when 2 or more of the 3 possible drivers travel together in the car, could be any one of us.
Soldato
In that case, unless the cloned plate was on a vehicle in your town then surely it would be reasonably easy to prove
Soldato
How can you prove it for sure if you haven’t seen the footage?
There has to be some evidence provided for you to defend yourself.
Soldato
Perhaps they could indicate the time and place where it happened if they dont show you the footage? They've got to give you something surely
Soldato
I've sent a few bits in from my dashcam. I don't go out of my way but if someone does something that is dangerous it gets sent for a review. Up to the police to decide yes or no. Sometimes I don't bother if I look at the footage and go nahh it is a genuine error or mistake / bad timing etc. But usually I send stuff like speeding through red lights or lack of due care and attention on roundabouts cutting people up, or just drivers causing near misses. All have been delt with by way of points / fine.
Where have you been? Even in 2019 89 dashcam footages were submitted to police daily and 25% resulted in the drivers being prosecuted. I am sure its much more now.
Loading…
www.honestjohn.co.uk
And its all over social media with many police forces putting up the dashcam footage and showing at the end of the clip what punishment the driver received. Lots of people getting done for passing cyclists too close on this video. And lots of people refusing to name the driver getting big fines and 6 points anyway. Although it looks most likely that people get an awareness course for close passing of a cyclist unless it was really close and dangerous
Last edited:
If you don't actually make contact with the cyclist, is it really driving without due care and attention? I mean I get you shouldn't get close and all, but being prosecuted because a butt hurt cyclist reports you getting too close and nothing happened otherwise is a bit meh. What if you believe you did keep 1.5 metres away. What if the footage is **** and blurry. I'd go to court out of stubbornness and principle of not just bending over and taking it based on a nothing burger of evidence.
Associate
I had someone try to overtake me in typical London traffic when there wasn't even enough space between myself and the car in front for them to pass into. Probably doing about 15mph and they just squeezed me into the kerb due to something coming in the other direction. Utterly pointless impatience simply because being in car apparently meant they must be faster.
Reported them for the hell of it, only hoping they might get a simple ticking off. Got an email a couple of months later saying they were hadn't responded to an NIP and were being taken to court for failing to identify the driver.
Reported them for the hell of it, only hoping they might get a simple ticking off. Got an email a couple of months later saying they were hadn't responded to an NIP and were being taken to court for failing to identify the driver.
Doesnt matter. If the keeper of the vehicle refuses to name the driver they get done just the same as some of the results show on the video clip I uploaded above
Soldato
Come off it, you are clutching at straws now. The case will be assessed by the police and has to be able to pass the threshold to obtain a prosecution in court, sending any old nonsense would get you nowhere
Soldato
No wonder the police are overstretched, cyclist grasses.
Associate
If the police have seen footage and considered it close enough to take action, claiming you thought it was 1.5m isn't doing yourself any favours.
Last edited:
But how would you know if you've never seen the footage because like most people, you'll just cave in and accept the penalty.
I don't trust anyone in authority personally.
Some of the above posts seem to have a lot of trust in our justice system and the police. Nothing wrong with going to court and getting representation. A fair trial. Even if you did come too close, you can then plead guilty based on presented evidence.
Last edited:
Cloned plates are far from an improbable one either sadly - one of the managers at work had both their card (we reckon modified cash machine at the fuel station) and registration plates cloned and used fraudulently - fortunately he'd just bought something locally (Somerset) and then they tried to buy £100s worth of fuel in Manchester. Fortunately they were stupid and his bank was on the ball and police actually caught them in the act.
Soldato
- Joined
- 23 May 2006
- Posts
- 7,064
true but if you do that isnt the punishment usually a lot worse?
Last edited:
Soldato
You have the right to challenge it in court and the evidence will have to pass the threshold to have a good chance of obtaining a prosecution. If it was any old nonsense as jaybee suggested then you would win your case
Yea and how many completely innocent people do you think weill end up getting scared and just pay up?
It literally happened to someone here on one of the above replies.