Can I ask if I'm getting a speeding ticket?

[Elementarymydear21]

Completely my own fault today, I hadn't noticed I had entered an average speed check zone of 50 from 70. I was just keeping up with the flow of traffic and then realised the speed limit had changed. I was doing about 60 when I looked, but had already passed the last of the average speed camera. Currently feeling very annoyed and upset with myself. Im pretty certain I'm going to get a NIP.

My main anxiety is we are moving house on the 27th June. We have set up the royal mail redirection service and will obviously change our drivers licence, VC5 etc when we move, but I'm worried that if I get sent a NIP it might come to this address after we have moved. Our post is always very slow.

Can I contact the met police maybe next week to ask if there is an intention to send one to me and explain that I'm moving? Will they tell me? My husband seems to think I'll just be incriminating myself if I ask and I wasn't going to get one. But I am pretty certain I will.

When I worked in traffic prosecutions it was regularly the case that people said that they never received anything, funny how they always received the summons. Regarding failing to respond, did you put it to the court that you never received the correspondence? That aside the only way you would have not been found guilty is if you can show due diligence. Whoever owns/is responsible for a vehicle should know who is driving it. Presumably this was speeding but what if it was more serious? Personally I reckon whoever was speeding would know they’re just denying it unless all the drivers of the vehicle are speeding everywhere. You were lucky to only get 3 points as failure to name the driver usually carries 6 points, the penalty is harsher than the speeding because of the implications of not knowing who is driving your vehicle.

We were both in the car and we changed over at some point but couldn’t remember at which point that’s all. And I can assure you we didn’t receive the letters. We denied ignoring the letters but admitted the speeding and had to pay a lot of money!

Working in the advice sector it was often the arrival of police or, for council parking tickets bailiffs, that seemed to be the first inkling of trouble. Some were careless with post or lived in HMOs or flat conversions where post piled up. A very large number though had not changed the address on the V5 when moving house.

My son's address on his V5 was scrambled by the supplying dealer, right flat number but wrong building number. When Police called regarding failure to respond to speeding notices (two of them!!) the occupants recognised the car's number and re-directed them.

Process started again and he got a course plus a fine and points.