How does this work??

[yungatart]

I caught up with an old friend of mine yesterday for a lttle Christmas cheer,as you do. She mentioned in passing, that she had recieved a "request for information on driver" and a photo of her car from the pollies.
She was at work at the time her car was allegedly photographed and her car was parked in the staff car park.
She produced the photo for us to look at - and while it was apparently her rego plate, the front of the car was different to hers - bullbars and spots eg, which her car doesn't have. Both rego plates are still on her car.
The plate on her car is ...718, could it be someone being clever and changing their ...710 to her ...718.
The car in question had its left wheels just inside the centre white line on a blind corner, so I certainly hope they catch the bastard.
What would you do?

[Sparky Bills]

Its good to hear that they are doing something about cutting corners!

If it was in the staff carpark all day, the other staff should be able to verify this? So should be sweet. ......shouldnt it?

Plus if the cars front end looked different, there shouldnt be any need to worry.
Id just supply the info asked for, and be as helpfull as possible, without going out of your own way to do so.

[merv]

Sounds like doctored plates which it is claimed the latest new font models prevent to a degree. Like stolen identity eh! She will be OK because she is the legitimate rego holder and can prove it.

[Skyryder]

The Police clearly have suspicians. I'd give them all the help you can.

Skyryder

[paturoa]

must be a bunch more to the story, like who took the photo,
was that her first contact with the police about it etc?

[yungatart]

The photo was taken by the cops. The first she knew about it was when the request arrived in the mail.
Her car is a toyota, but to my (untrained) eye the one in the pic looks like a Subaru

[Skunk]

I'd help all I can. They can then concentrate on catching the right person.

[Gremlin]

OK, a request for information is not a fine. It is simply what is stated. The cops are asking who was driving rego xxx at xxx time. The fine then follows accordingly

I would be writing back, with a photo of your front, a copy of what you were sent, explaining everything, its obvious its different a different vehicle.

If the cop is an a hole, he will get all shitty, say you are witholding information, can be fined up to $10,000 or time in jail etc etc. Just explain, with proof, that 1. it wasn't your car (or friend, whatever), even tho it was your rego, 2. Your car was at x place, at x time, and have witnesses.

You should be fine.. or friend... or whoever.

[Shadows]

She should help them out as much as possible. It sounds pretty obvoius that she is innocent. They can then rule her out of any wrongdoing and start to look at other possibilities.

[Squeak the Rat]

Why did the cop take a photo and not do anything about it at the time? Wouldn't top priority be stopping a dangerous driver, not hanging around to see who else they could photograph? Or have they installed survellance cameras for traffic enforcement other than speed and red lights? Or was it really a member of the public who took the photo? Come on Scully we've got work to do......

[yungatart]

Why did the cop take a photo and not do anything about it at the time? Wouldn't top priority be stopping a dangerous driver, not hanging around to see who else they could photograph?

It is all about revenue, dahling.
Did anyone see Top Gear last night, with the reference to speed cameras?Some counties had 24% extra cameras installed, but suffered an increase of 35% in road deaths. On the other side of the coin, some counties had no speed cameras at all and had no road deaths either.
Don't be fooled into thinking that safety of road users is paramount, cos it ain't!