Can I get off my fine??

[CLuTZ]

I was pulled over about a month ago by a TMU on Williams Rd, South Yarra.

On the ticket it says I have been pulled over on Williams Rd, South Yarra- but on the reminder notice, it says Williams Street, South Yarra. Does this make the infringement null and void?? There is no such place as Williams St, South Yarra!!


Worth a letter you rekon?? I was going to send one anyway, because he wasn't wearing his hat when he issued the fine....

 

[matress]

why not! give it a shot

 

[GSR94T]

haha love it... little discrepencies + inconsistencies to try get out of it..

should have become a lawyer!

 

[lefty]

You could try, not sure how far you'd get.

 

[Dean]

lmao,
watta clutz

 

[WindeX]

A Buick sedan???? WTF

 

[GSRSOL]

yeah id try, you haven't really got anything to lose by trying ...

 

[steve]

If VIC is anything like NSW's infringement processing board, you don't stand a chance.

 

[Jonson]

Steep fine :shock:
Might aswell try it.

 

[CLuTZ]

A Buick sedan???? WTF

http://4gtuner.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=25648#25648

If VIC is anything like NSW's infringement processing board, you don't stand a chance.

When I lived in N.Z, I got caught doing 21kph over the limit, and when they sent me the reminder it said 31kph over, and I wrote a letter and got off......


Surely if they're trying to say I got caught at a place that doesnt exist- the fine should be null and void??

 

[GSRSOL]

A Buick sedan???? WTF

http://4gtuner.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=25648#25648

If VIC is anything like NSW's infringement processing board, you don't stand a chance.

When I lived in N.Z, I got caught doing 21kph over the limit, and when they sent me the reminder it said 31kph over, and I wrote a letter and got off......


Surely if they're trying to say I got caught at a place that doesnt exist- the fine should be null and void??

i agree

 

[EVO-00X]

The fact is that he was driving an unregistered vehicle no matter where he was :lol: In NSW the law states that you are allowed to drive it during business hours (you are safe at 4:15pm) only to and from places via direct route only, in order for the vehicle to get repaired and to obtain a roadworthy. All you have to do is tell them that you were on your way to have a mechanic look at the car to tell you what was wrong with it, or on your way to get a roadworthy certificate. I was pulled over in an unregistered car once by a policeman after he did a numberplate check at a set of lights. It was a mates car and said 'do you realise you are driving an unregistered vehicle?" and I said, 'yes officer, I'm on my way to get it registered' and showed him the pink slip and rego papers in my hand and the money in my wallet and he was fine with it and let me go. The thing was I was 100% legit, I honestly was on my way to get it all done and rego'd that day

Here you go, look at VICROADS website, paragraph 2 Drive without an Unregistered Vehicle Permit:
http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home...IHaveToRegister/MovingUnregisteredVehicle.htm

Now all you have to do is get a pink slip back dated to the same day or a few days before you got fined and you've got a legal and legitimate reason to drive your unregistered vehicle on the road as you were on your way to VICROADS to sort out your rego werent you? until the policeman pulled you over and the Registry closed before you got there :wink:

 

[CLuTZ]

Here you go, look at VICROADS website, paragraph 2 Drive without an Unregistered Vehicle Permit:
http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/Home...IHaveToRegister/MovingUnregisteredVehicle.htm

Now all you have to do is get a pink slip back dated to the same day or a few days before you got fined and you've got a legal and legitimate reason to drive your unregistered vehicle on the road as you were on your way to VICROADS to sort out your rego werent you? until the policeman pulled you over and the Registry closed before you got there :wink:

I dont think its the fact that I was or wasn't driving an un-registered car, it was the fact that it says I was pulled over somewhere that doesnt exist, therefore I couldn't have actually been pulled over.

I dont think we have pink slips down here in Vic, infact, I dont even know what a pink slip is. It was a sunday arvo (the only time I ever drive the friggen thing :lol with 3 mates and 2 dogs in the car.

I explained to him that I have been trying to sell the car for months, therefore let the rego lapse because I was planning on selling it un-registered. I told him the honest truth in that the car was too nice to let sitting there for months gathering dust and said I had to drive it because was the first nice/warm sunday since last summer and it would be criminal to not drive it.

The cop then said thats cool, and he said totally he understood, and told me he loved the car and to grab a seat inside of it.

A few mins passed and he came up and said that he could have taken the plates off the car because it had been 4 months since the rego was due, but he said he'd wave it- but he couldnt wave the fine, because apparently when he checks the rego on his computer, he cant not issue an infringmnet notice.

He didnt fine me for not having my license on me, and sent me on my way.

 

[EVO-00X]

I dont think its the fact that I was or wasn't driving an un-registered car, it was the fact that it says I was pulled over somewhere that doesnt exist, therefore I couldn't have actually been pulled over.

A pink slip is a 'roadworthy' certificate in VIC.

Try and get off it with a letter but I know 100% that your response goes to the officer who issued you the infringement and he will then either say yay or nay to take it to court. His statement and records will show that you "were pulled over" and an infringement was issued. The street classification might be a technicality but once you're asked to make you're statement 'under oath' are you gonna say he's lieing? Once you admit to actually being "pulled over" you're busted regardless. You're gonna need to get someone with a bit of legal knowledge first on whether to proceed with it or not.

I suppose you've taken the risk a few times consciously knowing that you're doing the wrong thing. The dude was doing his job by protecting the general public and keeping an unregistered vehicle off the road and lucky for you that you were never involved in an accident and were faced with paying for someone elses car or personal injuries, or even worse so he probably done you a favour too. Although I hate saying it to you (cause you're a top bloke :lol: ) cop it on the chin and accept that you fukd up one time too many That's just my opinion, dont shoot me :lol:

 

[CLuTZ]

haha na thats cool, i'll spend 5 mins on a letter and see what they say, so stay tuned, and i'll keep you posted!








dre

 

[steve]

When I lived in N.Z, I got caught doing 21kph over the limit, and when they sent me the reminder it said 31kph over, and I wrote a letter and got off......

Surely if they're trying to say I got caught at a place that doesnt exist- the fine should be null and void??

Here, they'll just reissue the fine with the correct details on it.

 

[Chooka]

Here, they'll just reissue the fine with the correct details on it.

Yeah I got a fine for not having P plates displayed, but when I checked the details I found the cop had written the wrong date on the notice. I thought I was gonna get off but within a week I got a new notice with the correct date on it. :cry:

 

[Richard]

They will most likely reissue it correctly, that was the case for me as I sent a fine in planning to contest it in court and it was sent back to the cop as the address wasnt filled in right and I think it was up to him at that point if he was bothered to reissue it or drop it as I got the same fine back with the correct address. It just delayed the loss of license for me which was good at the time for me. As for the no hat thing I was told that is a load of bull...

 

[Mottafied]

My mum had a similar thing happen to her, she was doing 140km in a 100km zone and got a on the spot 1 month loss of licence. But on the ticket it said same thing, she was caught in a non-egsistant place.
She asked one of her cop mates and he said that if she takes it to caught she would probly get off on a technicality but it would make a fool out of the cop and she would get hassled all the time if she did.
(she drives a ford ED XR6 with a GT body kit in a small country town) Not a good idea.


also a little off subject but Chooka is that your car parked on the princess hwy, in Traralgon. I walk past it nearly every day.

 

[CLuTZ]

They will most likely reissue it correctly, that was the case for me as I sent a fine in planning to contest it in court and it was sent back to the cop as the address wasnt filled in right and I think it was up to him at that point if he was bothered to reissue it or drop it as I got the same fine back with the correct address. It just delayed the loss of license for me which was good at the time for me. As for the no hat thing I was told that is a load of bull...

Oh well that sounds good- maybe I wont write in, and just fight it in court instead??

Perhaps I should speak to my solicitor about it