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The letter did not contain any evidence of the offence and to be quite honest used some rather nasty scare tactics to put the recipient off challenging it. Again I signed the form and admitted liability - what else could I do?
Three months passed and I heard nothing. Then, out of the blue this pack arrives through the door summoning me to court. I sign the section indicating that I wished to plead guilty and sent it back with the next post.
It is now only a couple of weeks until Christmas and I'm sitting at work when suddenly my phone beeps to let me know I have received a text message. The message reads "HMCS…you were recently fined £258…please phone...." Naturally, I rang the number provided and pointed out that I hadn't received anything in the post recently.
"It's not our responsibility, Royal Mail must have lost it" was the response I eventually got fobbed off with. I asked why they don’t send important documents like these by recorded delivery.
Apparently it’d be too expensive. Ludicrous I’m sure you’ll agree considering the harshness of my penalty, which included a £15 victim fee (don’t even ask….).
In summary, I had to bend over and swallow a £258 fine, very close to Christmas for a six month old offence that I'm not even sure I committed?! All this happened on a road that has a completely inappropriate speed limit in the first place.
By: Olly
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