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Reply to Section 172 Notice — Driver Not Known: Statement of Reasonable Diligence
[YOUR FULL NAME]
[YOUR ADDRESS]
[EMAIL] · [PHONE]
[POLICE FORCE] — [CAMERA ENFORCEMENT UNIT / CENTRAL TICKET OFFICE]
[ADDRESS FROM THE NOTICE]
[DATE]
Notice reference: [NOTICE REFERENCE NUMBER]
Vehicle registration: [REGISTRATION]
Date, time and place of the alleged offence: [DATE, TIME, LOCATION]
Date the notice was served on me: [DATE]
Dear Sir or Madam,
Reply under section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988
I am the registered keeper of the vehicle above. I have tried to identify who was driving it at the time of the alleged offence, but I do not know and, despite the steps below, I have not been able to find out. I give all the information in my power that may lead to the identification of the driver.
1. People who could have been driving
Name Address Relationship / insured? What they told me, and when
[NAME] [ADDRESS] [FOR EXAMPLE: MY PARTNER, NAMED DRIVER] [SAID THEY DID NOT DRIVE / CANNOT REMEMBER — DATE ASKED]
[NAME] [ADDRESS] [RELATIONSHIP] [ANSWER — DATE ASKED]
[MYSELF] Keeper and main driver [WHERE I WAS AT THAT TIME, IF KNOWN]
2. Steps I took to find out
On [DATE] I asked each person above, [IN PERSON / BY TEXT / BY EMAIL]; copies of the messages are enclosed.
I checked [DIARIES / WORK ROTAS / CALENDAR ENTRIES] for [DATE OF OFFENCE]: [RESULT].
I checked [FUEL RECEIPTS / BANK STATEMENTS / TOLL OR PARKING RECORDS / PHONE LOCATION HISTORY / TELEMATICS]: [RESULT].
[ANY OTHER STEP, WITH DATE AND RESULT].
3. Why I still cannot say who was driving
[EXPLAIN, FOR EXAMPLE: THE CAR IS SHARED BY (NUMBER) INSURED DRIVERS, KEYS ARE KEPT IN THE HALL, THE DAY WAS (DESCRIPTION) AND NO RECORD SHOWS WHO USED IT.]
4. Request
If you have any photograph or video of the driver, please send me a copy so that I can try again to identify the driver. I will write to you immediately if I find out who was driving.
I make this reply to comply with section 172. I rely on section 172(4): I do not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained who the driver was. This reply is not an admission of the alleged offence.
Yours faithfully,
____________________
[YOUR FULL NAME]
Enclosed: [SECTION 172 FORM], [COPIES OF MESSAGES AND RECORDS CHECKED]
For me
[ ] Notice served on [DATE] — reply sent by [DATE] (28 days beginning with the service date)
[ ] Proof of delivery kept, with copies of every message and record
[ ] Company car: show that no record of drivers was kept and why that was reasonable (s 172(6))
[ ] If the driver is identified later: write to the police at once with the name and address