Failing to Provide Driver Details

If a person has allegedly committed a driving offence but not been stopped by the police, the registered keeper will receive a Notice of Intended Prosecution requiring him/her to furnish details of the driver at the time of the alleged offence. If convicted, failing to furnish information now carries (from 24th September 2007) 6 points/or a disqualification and a fine of up to £1,000.

If you can prove on a balance of probabilities that you did not know and could not, with reasonable diligence, have found out who the driver was, you have a defence. It is also a defence to show that it has not been practicable for you to give the information required.

There have been occasions when a person has named someone else as driving, knowing it to be false, and this has led to a prosecution for attempting to pervert the course of justice, which usually results in a prison sentence.