There have always been myths about loopholes in the law and its quite rare that any of them are true. Recently, a few have popped up regarding driving laws, and as usual, there are very few that have any truth to them.
Probably the most common way out people think that they have is when a police officer makes a mistake on a traffic offence ticket, e.g. speeding, red traffic light offences etc. and most of the time, you simply wont have an argument.
This is because the ticket that he gives to you is not official evidence, it is just a brief overview of the offence and if you question the validity of the ticket due to an error, then all that will happen is that a court summons will be sent to you and the officer will have to draw up an official statement which he is not likely to make any errors on.
If you challenge the actual accusation however, i.e. you dont believe you did commit the offence they are accusing you of, then a mistake on a ticket could be put forward as evidence that the officers work is inaccurate and unreliable.
However if you did actually commit the offence and a police officer catches you, you dont really have a leg to stand on.
Human rights violations are something else that people try to cling to when accused of traffic offences. The usual argument is that because they are the registered keeper of the vehicle that they are not obliged to tell the police who was driving at the time in question because of their human rights.
The fact is that this just isnt true. Human rights have been changed to this effect because the compromise in human rights is proportionate to the importance of road safety.
Another very common mistake that drivers make is that when they buy a new car, they are covered from the insurance on their old vehicle to drive any car owned by someone else with their permission, and as they havent made themselves the registered keeper of the vehicle yet, therefore it still officially belongs to someone else, therefore they are insured.
This is also a false belief. If you have paid money for the car then as far as the law and insurance goes, that car is yours and if you havent switched the insurance over, then you are driving without insurance, which is of course illegal.
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