Points on my driving licence

[schmunk]

Sir, sir, is it because the points relate to the date of offence, not conviction, and that the date of offence has actually been put forward a year, so it'll stay on his license a year longer, not a yet shorter?

[Lee H]

don't try this one at home folks...

BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Driver faked death to avoid fines

roffle

[Koolpc]

Tell them you are a high ranking police officer!!

[manwithnoname]

Well I got caught speeding on the A14 on the 01/07/2006 by a mobile speed camera, within a few days I had a letter to say that I had been caught but it wasnt a fixed fine and 3 points, just a letter saying I had been caught, and then I didnt hear anything for ages. Around January 2007 I had a letter saying that I had to go to court because of being caught speeding, I didnt go but sent off the letter saying that I was guilty. The hearing was on the 06/02/2007 and I phoned the court the following day to see what had happened, I ended up with 4 points, £60 fine and £30 court costs.
This was all ok.
Then today I just happened to check my driving licence and it has the date of conviction wrong, it says
Date Of Conviction : 06/02/2007, Date Of Offence 01/07/2007,
So I was convicted nearly 5 months before the offence
Any ideas on what to do?

Isn't the Date Of Conviction correct i.e. the date of the court case? The Date Of Offence is wrong by exactly a year. I'm not sure how points on your license work, are they removed after a set time from the date of the conviction or from the date of the offence if it's the conviction date it probably doesn't matter if it's the offence date then I get it change to 01/07/2006.

[Templar87]

I read about a guy in Australia who had the date of offence written down as being his date of birth (anyone remember that story?). The letter he wrote them was brilliant and involved him crawling out of hospital on the day of his birth and joyriding a car he wouldn't own for over 20 years. They took off his points in the end based on this technicality. Perhaps the rules in the UK work the same way?

[edit]

My mistake - it was New Zealand: it's hosted here - Spiked Humour.

[Funkstar]

Sir, sir, is it because the points relate to the date of offence, not conviction, and that the date of offence has actually been put forward a year, so it'll stay on his license a year longer, not a yet shorter?

there's a good lad. Have a cookie

Also:

like the fine, upstanding law-abiding citizen you are should and would.

If he was indeed a fine upstanding, law-abiding citizen, he wouldn't have the points in the first place

Not that I can talk.....

[dymodan]

if the date of the conviction is early, lucky you. It will be wiped off earlier then.

[dave87]

I think we established it wasn't, and therefore he's losing out...

[pauldarkside]

Yep, according to the information on the Directgov site, the page does confirm the offence date is used in this case. So the OP would be better off getting it amended.