Road Safety Bill [HL]

On that last point, when I used to sit as a magistrate, I understood that where no reply was received the police regularly went round to the address and asked, ““Why have we not had a reply?””. Likewise, when the cases came before court there was an opportunity to produce proof. If recorded delivery had been used you could then establish whether something had been delivered and by whom. What is more worrying and is not covered in the Bill is the number of people who have an accident, run away leaving their car and then phone the police and say that the car was stolen. That happened to me, and I was able to identify the person because I was sitting in my house when they crashed into my car outside the house. Due to a slip-up in the police identity parade the fellow got off completely, when I knew very well that he was the driver of the vehicle at the time and he had reported the car stolen after the event. There should be something to cover those strange occasions that are reported as thefts after accidents rather than before.