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Jim_AFCB
Hi chaps and chapesses,

My wife was shunted from behind at a roundabout in December last year. It turns out that the driver was uninsured and we have just found this out. It's not a problem as she has had all the money from the insurance company.

I am thinking that it is now too late to inform the police in order that they can throw the book at the little scrote as they have (as with speeding) six months to lay an information at the mags. Can anyone confirm?
southpaw82
Insurance is not most other summary offences. The police can lay an information up to six months after sufficient information comes to their attention to prosecute, subject to an absolute limit of three years from the date of the offence. So, if you tell them today they then have six months from today to lay an information.
nemo
As above, driving without insurance is an offence to which Section 6 Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 applies. For your reference:

QUOTE (s.6 RTOA 1988)
6. Time within which summary proceedings for certain offences must be commenced.—

(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, summary proceedings for an offence to which this section applies may be brought within a period of six months from the date on which evidence sufficient in the opinion of the prosecutor to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge.

(2) No such proceedings shall be brought by virtue of this section more than three years after the commission of the offence.

(3) For the purposes of this section, a certificate signed by or on behalf of the prosecutor and stating the date on which evidence sufficient in his opinion to warrant the proceedings came to his knowledge shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

(4) A certificate stating that matter and purporting to be so signed shall be deemed to be so signed unless the contrary is proved.

(5) In relation to proceedings in Scotland, subsection (3) of section 136 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (date of commencement of proceedings) shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that.

(6) Schedule 1 to this Act shows the offences to which this section applies.
Jim_AFCB
Than ks for the replies.

Considering making a complaint now, just need to find out how to go about it.
Hotel Oscar 87
Go in person to your local police station - but I'd suggest that you do it first thing in the morning before the front office fills with scrotes - armed with all the necessary information about the accident and subsequent correspondence.
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