Theoretical Question.

If you got a standard 3 points/60 quid fine NIP, but you didn't know
about it because you moved house between getting flashed & the NIP
being sent out, & you'd also sold the vehicle that was flashed, what
would happen?

you're goin' daaahn, you slaag.

My chum had a similar experience, got flashed, moved house, NIP
arrived at old house, etc. It took so long to resolve that it went
beyond the six months and timed out.

Interesting. I don't suppose anyone would move house & sell their
bike/car to avoid 3 points, but could be a way out if those points
would take you into bye-bye licence territory.

I seem to recall that the six month limit is from the time of the
'offender' being identified rather than from the date of the offense.

Would be interested if I was wrong here. Anyone got an authoritative
position?

Say, if someone was caught speeding just after they'd picked up a car,
rejected the first NIP as "arriving too late" was told "we sent it to
the original owner", then was a little awkward responding to the letter
saying "disclose who was driving".

Would the six months run from the date of the offense or the date of the
second NIP which stated that one was the driver?

We-ell.... the present keeper would get the NIP, he'd say he bought
the car from whoever at whatever address, the authorities would send
an NIP there, and then a lot depends on whether the new house
occupiers forward the mail or not. If the new occupiers don't know
where you are, then I think the only way they'd find you would be if
you put your driving licence number on the V5 of the vehicle when you
bought it, and as that's not obligatory, hardly anyone does. So I

I thought it might go something like that, but wondered if they'd just
stick the 3 points on the licence of whoever was the registered keeper.

think you, sorry, this hypothetical person, is safe.

Amazingly enough, it was a genuine hypothetical question. Just one of
those things that pops into your head at night when you can't sleep &
your brain goes wandering.

How do you know you've got an NIP?

Don't worry until it actually gets to you, then ask for the photographic
evidence. By the time they've completed all the paperchases to get to this
point the cost of taking you to court will probably be prohibitive and you
won't actually get a fine or points.

Unless they ask for costs.

The end of civilisation as we know it.

The theoretical conscience would torment the theoretical person until
they couldn't eat, couldn't sleep for the pangs of angst. They would
then turn themselves in to the nearest processing centre for
re-education and assignment to a work camp to work off their debt to
society for committing such a horrendous crime.

Now on CD for the first time, Richard Brunstrom reads Edgar Alan Poe's "The
tell-tale heart".

But the point is the theoretical person would know nothing about it.

Conscience works in mysterious ways..

Or maybe I need to ease off on the migraine meds slightly..

If in doubt, take more.

Just at the moment it's looking like the attractive option. Much, much
more.