Fined 3 points and £100 for a slight tear in tyre
andersonsonson
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This morning, 2 police officers approached me in a car park as one of my reverse lights weren't working. Didn't know about it so was good they told me about it, but..
They then done some quick checks on the car to check my other lights and also checked my tyres. Everything was fine except they found a slight tear on one of my tyres and said it could blow at any stage. I didn't know this tear as it was in a very hard to see spot. They gave me a £100 fine and 3 points for "defective tyre". :eek: Would a warning not have been fine (I would still get the tyre replaced today as I did)? should I appeal? I had no idea about this problem, seems very harsh to me!
They then done some quick checks on the car to check my other lights and also checked my tyres. Everything was fine except they found a slight tear on one of my tyres and said it could blow at any stage. I didn't know this tear as it was in a very hard to see spot. They gave me a £100 fine and 3 points for "defective tyre". :eek: Would a warning not have been fine (I would still get the tyre replaced today as I did)? should I appeal? I had no idea about this problem, seems very harsh to me!
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And also another ticket with a £100 fine and 3 points. They were nice police officers as well.
and also £100 in their pockets, I'm a big fan of the police but I thought this was very harsh, also going to bump my insurance up £100 this year
If it'd been me I would have tried to say that a lump of exhaust pipe fell off a car in front this morning and I had to drive over it cos the road was busy and that's what must've caused the nick in my tyre cos I do check them every couple of days.
errr, around 2 cm in from edge of tyre at end furthest inside car, around 4cm long.
Then you can refuse to pay the fixed penalty and go to court instead.
Sadly I don't think you will have any joy - but it does seem that the police in your area appear to be underemployed.:)
these situations are never nice ,,,,,, they have been overly harsh ,,,,, and maybe you have to accept it
Sounds like you were caught while the vehicle was in motion. If your car was stationary with the engine off you may have got away with it.
but there was no way to tell it was damaged, this is why I think the fine and points are unfair
OK...granted the garage would be able to make a detailed examination of the tyre, but frankly if the police were able to tell it was damaged, then does it not seem reasonable that you would also have been able to tell?
Just what auto-mechanic qualifications do police officers have to make such a clear judgement, anyway.
Well the garage confirmed the tyre was illegal, so the officers were correct in their judgement.
because I was told to put my steering all the way to right and left as they inspected the tyres with a torch :eek: and the tear was near the inside furthest away from outside view
One of my out of hours sidelines is writing letters for people and one thing I did was get a parking fine cut in half for someone.
I think that the punishment in this instance is on the firm side and that's unfortunate. However, one thing to consider is the likelihood of the success of any appeal and the time spent on the appeal.
As there were two vehicular defects present, and as both could potentially be regarded as safety defects, my estimate would be that there would only be a minority chance of winning any appeal. All I can do is try to be as impartial as possible and I'm afraid the thing to do is probably take the hit on this one and not bother with the effort of making an appeal.
It wouldn't fail an mot because of it (neither would 2 broken reverse lights)
The coppers you encountered probably had had a bad day!
I thought you could only get done if you were on a road, you say you were in a car park. If that was the case then did they give you the opportunity to put a spare tyre on if of course you had one?