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had a letter from cheshire constabulary stating intention of prosecution for speeding offence.
the car listed is not mine; i suspect it's the hire car i had for the monday following the saturday of the offence (my employers regularly hire cars for me to visit different offices); the hire companies quite often like to deliver to/leave the hire cars in the street ahead of/after the hire period and i can recall them delivering one car earlyish saturday morning, which may well have been this one (although i've no record of the registration). they don't always get a signature, incidentally.
if that's the case, I won't have driven it until the monday (surely i'd be uninsured to do so outside of the hire period), and the company have only once allowed me a weekend hire (which was a different date). the direction of travel is also towards where i live and at a time on a saturday when, far from gadding about town in a hire car, i'll far more likely be getting kids' breakfasts, tuning my son's guitar ahead of his lesson at 10, and then prepping the bike for a club run that was on later that day. we have our own car
typically, none of the response options fit the scenario (the closest is i've never been the owner/keeper/hirer of the vehicle (although i can't be sure i've never had that particular car), and the length of time between getting this and the offence suggests that the hire company has passed on my name.
i'll be ringing the ticket line on monday morning, and speaking with the car hire coordinator when we're both back at work.
anyone got some sagely advice for me?
the car listed is not mine; i suspect it's the hire car i had for the monday following the saturday of the offence (my employers regularly hire cars for me to visit different offices); the hire companies quite often like to deliver to/leave the hire cars in the street ahead of/after the hire period and i can recall them delivering one car earlyish saturday morning, which may well have been this one (although i've no record of the registration). they don't always get a signature, incidentally.
if that's the case, I won't have driven it until the monday (surely i'd be uninsured to do so outside of the hire period), and the company have only once allowed me a weekend hire (which was a different date). the direction of travel is also towards where i live and at a time on a saturday when, far from gadding about town in a hire car, i'll far more likely be getting kids' breakfasts, tuning my son's guitar ahead of his lesson at 10, and then prepping the bike for a club run that was on later that day. we have our own car
typically, none of the response options fit the scenario (the closest is i've never been the owner/keeper/hirer of the vehicle (although i can't be sure i've never had that particular car), and the length of time between getting this and the offence suggests that the hire company has passed on my name.
i'll be ringing the ticket line on monday morning, and speaking with the car hire coordinator when we're both back at work.
anyone got some sagely advice for me?
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