Frau aus York, 86, nach Tippfehler bei der Kfz-Versicherung verurteilt

>Cases are decided based on written evidence alone, with no prosecutor present to see the mitigation and other correspondence sent in by the defendant.

>The design of the fast-track process means prosecutors are unable to review new evidence that has come to light, or take a decision to withdraw a case that is no longer in the public interest.

That’s not horrifying at all, is it?

For the record this is why when you take out insurance they keep banging on at you to review your documentation and make sure all info is accurate. They won’t take liability if you made a mistake.

They SHOULD take responsibility if they made a mistake but if you let the mistake go unnoticed long enough they might still have a way to wriggle out.

£26 fine and a conditional discharge, for technically driving without insurance.

>Her niece also sent in a letter, explaining: „All the paperwork for insurance has been found to be one letter incorrect. No-one had picked up on this.

>“I am now helping her with her paperwork as we (the family) did not know it had got to the stage where she can’t cope.

Not to be unsympathetic, but I’m pretty sure they tell you multiple times to confirm you’ve got the correct details, and millions of OAPs manage this without issue. If she can’t cope with that should she really be driving…

> In the pensioner’s case, David Pollard, a magistrate sitting at Teesside Magistrates‘ Court, opted to accept the written guilty plea and impose a conviction, rather than asking the DVLA to do further checks on the public interest in the prosecution.

The article seems to be blaming this fast track system for her conviction, but this paragraph seems to say that she pled guilty? If so would a standard court really have done anything differently?

The Single Justice Procedure has reduced justice to little more than a technical procedure, and has done so in a way that, actually, removed justice from the process. The result? No justice at all.

I’m all for efficiency in the administration of justice and the SJP generally works OK – but there does need to be some ‚escape valve‘ so that these sorts of issues are taken into account

Womens pleads guilty to something she is guilty of. System recognises the minimal nature of her fault and discharges her with a £26 fine.

Given some of the massive failings we’ve seen in the justice system down the decades I’m not sure this is one tbh.

Unfortunately lack of car insurance is a strict liability offence (meaning intent doesn’t matter) and there must be a car of that with that registration for the insurance to go through on the insurance company system

Not sure why this warrants a BBC news article. A woman who insures the wrong car by mistake gets a slap on the wrist.

It seems like a genuine mistake, but it’s a strict liability offense, so them not issuing a fine is the least they could probably do.

Obviously she shouldn’t have been convicted, buuuut if her eyesight is so poor she makes a typo and doesn’t spot it in any of the subsequent correspondence, then she shouldn’t be driving either.

Glad to see the English justice system is once again keeping us all safe.

Remove the requirement to have car insurance, make third party injury insurance part of the car tax. Insure your own property from damage and your own third party liability yourself.

The Single Justice System is bunk and needs to be scrapped. Just give people fixed penalty notices and let them contest them through the courts as usual.

A lot of people being quite ageist here my Nan was 88 and still sharper and quicker witted than anyone else I knew.

Although she rarely did drive I would have felt ver confident with her doing so.

Her husband in his 90s though eventually did get his keys taken off him after filling his car with the wrong fuel. Not exactly the worst thing but yknow it’s just a mistake on the road is it could make a worse one next time.

She’s now going to have to declare a driving without insurance conviction when she next applies for insurance.

At 86 she may well decide to give up driving but for anyone younger it could work out extremely expensive.

Insurance websites literally look up the make model and colour from your registration so it should be glaringly obvious even if it is just one letter wrong.

If you can’t fill out an online form, then check your document when they come through the post, then maybe, just maybe you shouldn’t be fucking driving.

Use your God damn bus pass that why we give it to you for free.

The insurance industry is an absolute scam. The fact its run by private entities but require by law for car insurance makes it even worse. Absolute vultures. Even if they do pay out in the case of an accident, premiums rocket to unmanageable levels. Ghouls.