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At the risk of being flamed....
I was caught speeding in April'21 - Fair cop, stupidity on my part, no excuses here.
I received the 'who was driving' form - filled in that, and was made aware in that form / accompanying letter that this would be a court appearance, not points and fixed fine.
Since then I have heard nothing - I even phoned up in December '21 to ask if there was any progress, and was told there's a backlog...
2 years and counting - has anyone else waited this long?
You may have got away with it, or there may be court delays and your stay at HMP Hilton is around the corner ! LOL.
I read it as April 23 first. You are probably in the clear (or on the wanted list).
I think you're probably in the clear. They have 6 months I think between the identification letter and intend to prosecute letter.
Scotland or England/Wales?
Who did you call? The police? or the court?
Have you checked your DVLA record to make sure nobody has added points/disqualified without you knowing?
IF nobody has lodged this at the court (rules are slightly different N/S of the border) then the case sounds like it will be time-barred.
thanks for the answers.
I'm in England, just, was caught in Northumberland. nothing on DVLA, and haven't received any letters from the court. i spoke to the police, speeding penalty department
OK so they had 6 months* from the offence to put the information before the court and begin proceedings. Assuming you've not moved house and don't have any issues with post, you would have got the notification within weeks of that. If for some reason you hadn't got it then even with the courts' levels of understaffing it would have been dealt with long before now and have resulted in points and a fine for an uncontested charge. The points would show up on DVLA and after this period you'd expect the bailiffs to have been sending scary letters demanding money too. So I would say you appear to have got lucky that through the incompetence of the system they've failed to take a few bits of paper from one place and put them in another place in time, and so its been binned.
(* during Covid this was increased to 12 months for some offences in Scotland - but I don't think it was in England)
<p style="text-align: left;">Approx 2 years for me to get my date in court. Ironically I only had 6 points on the day I got banned as some had fallen off. Still, clean license now.</p>
Mos, but presumably you were informed about the court proceedings and date etc a long time before? 2 years from offence to a trial is (sadly) not that uncommon - especially if a date was cancelled for Covid but 2 days from offence to first calling so you can plead guilty would be odd unless you had done something like move house etc so there was a delay. It won’t help the OP if he is hearing other people saying 2 years is normal if we aren’t talking about the same start and finish points or the circumstances are different.
Looks like you got lucky, as the court appearance would mean huge delays and speeding being a lower priority, you're well past the timing requirements and probably sat in a pile that were deemed uneconomical to progress.
Mos, but presumably you were informed about the court proceedings and date etc a long time before? 2 years from offence to a trial is (sadly) not that uncommon – especially if a date was cancelled for Covid but 2 days from offence to first calling so you can plead guilty would be odd unless you had done something like move house etc so there was a delay. It won’t help the OP if he is hearing other people saying 2 years is normal if we aren’t talking about the same start and finish points or the circumstances are different.
Going by the post, he's had the Notice of Intended Prosecution within the 14 days, and he has sent back his response within the 28 days and heard nothing since. The CPS still have 6 months to issue the court summons, which has not happened, so effectively they have not achieved the time limit imposed to do this.
Yes, it can take a couple of years to get a date, but they have to issue that summons in the appropriate time with the time and date for the court appearance.
argee - thats exactly what I said.
The court in E&W has to have the information laid before it within six months of the offence. The information is not the summons and the summons can be made out and served after the six months have elapsed
I'd think that two years is getting on a bit. I imagine that you want closure so write to the Chief Constable of Northumberland with as much information as you have, dates, the reference on the s172 notice (who was driving), etc. It should be sorted pretty quickly
As a slight aside, I was caught by a speed camera recently at 1am, and the letter popped through the post the same afternoon. Lovely.
<p style="text-align: left;">Can't help much, but I'm in a similar position. It's been 18 months since I sent off the form saying I'd like to go to court to plead my case, but haven't heard a peep since.</p>