Hello everyone. I'm hoping someone has had a similar experience or some advice for me.
My dh got a speeding fine last year (34 mph in a 30 fixed camera). Don't worry I was suitably irritated with him. We couldn't afford the £80 for the speed awareness course so we opted to wait for the fixed penalty. When the letter came for the fine my dh filled it in, we saved up enough for the fine and sent it off. My dh has dyslexia and often struggles with paperwork, but said he'd sorted it and I didn't check. Eventually we got the paperwork back and it turned out he'd misread it and not sent the photo card back and he thought it wasn't required. We got the photo card (had to be posted from my dh's head office as he'd left it in a work vehicle that week by mistake) and sent it back again asap, but we must have missed the date as they posted out a court summons instead.
I filled in his paperwork and wrote an apology for the speeding, and explained the reasons behind the late paperwork like above.
We've had the results from court this week. They have decided to increase the fine from £60 to £90 and add on a £20 victim surcharge, and £85 court costs. So its gone from £60 to £195.
I've obviously gone ballistic at dh for causing all this, both by the initial speeding then the disorganisation with the paperwork, but that doesn't change the fact that we now have this huge bill to pay.
The court had our financial information at the time, they know he is supporting me and our three young children on his wage alone, and we have no money at all spare each week. The only option would be some kind of payday loan and we work so hard to not get into this debt spiral, it's just making me so upset. We have about 2 weeks to find the whole amount and no payment options have been offered.
So my question is, can he ring the court to ask for some kind of repayment plan or if that was a possibility would they have offered this straight away?
(Sorry if this is jumbled, got a migraine.)
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mrstigs · 21/02/2014 17:24
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