registered keeper address

Boycey0211 · 1 Feb 2014 at 19:00

Hi,

I've changed address and forgotten about changing the V5, and possibly got done for speeding

Now I'll have to contact the ticketing place to check on monday or something because by the time (if) this thing gets to me I'll be outside the UK for a couple of months.

I'm going to have to assume the ticket won't get forwarded to me at my current address, so obviously now i'm going to sort out the V5 so I don't have this worry if it happens again.

This is the first time i've been possibly caught, was more focused on getting past a truck with an insecure load and needle said somewhere around 75 when I spotted the van

My main question is: Can I change my registered V5 address at a post office or something rather than sending off my logbook? As I would rather get this done quickly as I am aware it's illegal. My google is weak on this one

[TW]Fox · 1 Feb 2014 at 19:04

No, you must send it off to the DVLA.

-westy- · 1 Feb 2014 at 19:05

If your speedo was reading around 75 (on a motorway...), then chances are you were only doing around 70mph anyway, don't worry about it.

Boycey0211 · 1 Feb 2014 at 19:10

[TW]Fox;25772725 said:
No, you must send it off to the DVLA.

OK thanks, will do it Monday

-westy- said:
If your speedo was reading around 75 (on a motorway...), then chances are you were only doing around 70mph anyway, don't worry about it.

Yeah thats what I've heard but as I won't be in the UK to pay it myself by the time it catches up with me its got me panicking. It was a dual carriageway with normal limit

miniyazz · 1 Feb 2014 at 20:45

I assumed single carriageway road from the OP. Dual carriageway will 99.9% be fine at that indicated speed, unless you're in a van/lorry..

Boycey0211 · 1 Feb 2014 at 21:35

yeah sorry I wasn't particularly clear in the OP, I really hope so, never been done for anything so far

Dave L · 2 Feb 2014 at 07:33

Not informing the DVLA of an address change is taken very dimly by the courts, see it all the time in the local rag. Some get whopping fines!

Boycey0211 · 2 Feb 2014 at 16:13

Dave L said:
Not informing the DVLA of an address change is taken very dimly by the courts, see it all the time in the local rag. Some get whopping fines!

Exactly, well its in the post now anyway not that it makes much of a difference.

Checked my speedo via GPS and it is constantly 10% over, so Iif Norfolk police have a ticket speed of 75-77 ish then I would have had to be doing 80+ on the clock, which it definitely wasn't.

Fingers crossed and lesson learned either way!