Court appearance Speeding fine.

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I’ve been summonsed to court over a speeding fine that I have proof I paid. The police say I didn’t send in my drivers license details. Which I did. Twice.
Then the police returned my £100 into my account. On calling the police to discuss, they admitted that they have problems with their post ( I don’t believe that as I had duplicate fines and letters from them ) and lots of people are in my situation. I was told to go to court and tell them what has happened. And that the magistrate will be sympathetic. On suggesting this was a complete waste of time and waste of tax payers money, the man on the phone agreed. But said there was nothing he could do.
Has anyone else experienced this? If I do go to court I want to be for armed with knowledge that there are others out there in the same situation as me. I will be challenging the police with incompetencies in dealing with their admin systems. This is not going to be another case similar to those who were blamed at the post office in 2003

How did you get on? We are due in court over something related to a speeding fine - not similar to your circumstances but I’d still be interested to hear whether the magistrate was indeed sympathetic.

sorry to hear you had to go through this, it’s awful. I’m so stressed over this, it is devastating

Might be worth posting http://www.pepipoo.com a site which helps people with these kind of issues

Something similar to your driving licence mistaken penalty happened to me. I couldn't find my paper licence when I received a fixed penalty ticket for speeding. I took insurance details to the local police station and explained I couldn't find my licence, had reapplied but had not yet received the replacement.

I was summoned to court on a charge of driving on a provisional licence without supervision and not showing L plates.

Represented myself, explained, was told to pay in the spot (a higher fine than the fixed penalty would have been ) and all other charges were dropped.

The policeman who had to read out the accusation shoulder's dropped when I said that I had a licence, which I couldn't find and had applied for a replacement. What a waste of time.

Some courts are running a backlog. If it doesn't onto court in seven years, there will be no further action.

Not sure if it's similar but I'm on I mission atm to highlight that all these professional public services do what they want when they want,

Don't laugh but, I got done twice in the same place on way there and on way back! 🤦‍♀️ I was genuinely struggling with the weather conditions on the motorway at night torrential rain and a satnav that was new but hadn't changed updated or whatever I was supposed to do when the average speed cameras came about. I was all levels of panicked but I wasn't a new driver or anything I was just confused. It was 50 but my satnav said 70 then there was roadworks then it was 60/70 then 50 I just wanted get home in one piece. Which I did. Then in the post came one letter 52 in a 50 broke my heart then day after came another 53 in a 50. Exactly same place! I was angry then and disputed it just because it felt unfair. It went on past 6months that's when they can no longer pursue it I got off with the 3points.

But then on the day of court I turned up to the wrong court 🤦‍♀️ I just presumed my local court no idea it would be the court where it happened 😂 cnt remember exactly but think I got a fine so I kicked off again because they refused t let me do the speed awareness course to rid the other 3points!! I know it was pushing it but it still took ages let it go. It cost my £2k extra insurance over the 4 yrs and then left with bonkers logic in my head that one could just speed again now and not have learnt anything knowing they could just do the course?? Crazy