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Telmah
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No sympathy for your son, tell him to pay up and take it as a learning curve. If he goes to court then it will cost him more and he might even get three points.
It is such a pain when people have the fog lights on unnecessarily and its just the same with the rear fog light. |
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Sir Sidney Snot
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No pay up and don't use fog lights in the wrong weather serves him right! |
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Boston The Border Collie
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Nope. The MG badge was Rover owned at one time and the cars are very similar. This is not the sort of technicality that you could rely on. Wrong time, date or place, yes, but not this. |
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haardvarx
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I hate sitting behind cars that unnecessarily have fog lights on, so no sympathy from me. |
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BobC
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No, the ticket will stand, correct person, correct registration number, don't go to court just pay up |
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boobboo77
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I am sorry you son got a ticket for having his fog lamps on.
But not sorry he got stopped, I hate it when people have their fog lamps on and there is no fog.
If his headlights are not strong enough, buy new bulbs.
But the judge will not throw the ticket out as your son was in the wrong. |
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Mark B
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Take it to court and hopefully he will get a bigger penalty. He is obviously one of these numbskulls that drives with his fogs on trying to look cool (probably in a saxo with noisy exhaust or similar). I'm glad the police gave him a ticket. Wish they would do it more often round my way. |
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Sonja
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No. My daughter has had two tickets with details wrong. They call the info in and I think they base it on that. I hate to say it but those fog lights are really irritating and have been known to cause road rage. It's ok in the fog or snow or even rain but not on a clear night. |
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firecat_mage
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A rover MG is a Rover.
An MG is a Rover.
At least as far as the Police are concerned.
The ticket is fully legal.
Next time, tell your son to use normal lights in normal conditions.
Fog lamps are designed to be used at times of fog (surprisingly) |
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dave angel
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MG and Rover were a badge engineering exercise and really refer to the same car as it was from the MG/Rover group.
It is an offence to drive with fog lights on if there is no reason to have them on.
It will not be thrown out of court on the vehicle name issue. |
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Bluefurball
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No it wouldnt get thrown out as MG is a manufacturing mark for rover...also he probably got the ticket as foglights should only be used when visibility is down to less than 100yards.. |
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YORKSHIRE
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The penalty would stand as the car is an MG Rover. |
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☺
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not just because the kind of car is wrong...i tried that before..it didnt work |
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bostonianinmo
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Given that MGs are made by the MG/Rover Group, it's not even technically an error. Sorry, time to pay up! |
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woznotwoz
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No he won't, and driving with fog lights on in normal weather is an offence as they should only be used in poor visibility. Sorry, but there are far too many fools driving round with foglights on because they think it looks good. No sympathy. |
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Hilary Y
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No, minor errors like this do not invalidate the ticket.
Set your son a good example and tell him that if he breaks the law he has to face up to it and pay the fine, rather than trying to wriggle out of it! |
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racyragtop
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No |
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sunnybums
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He will have to pay up, an MG is/was built by the Rover group, if he checks his V5 it will say make model Make MG ROVER. with regard to the FPN he will have to pay unless he can prove that the reason he had them on was because of very poor visability, as officers have issued it, they must have been able to see his number plate from some distance or they would have tugged his collar if they had to get that close to him |
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badshotcop
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On the PNC computer when one is checked it will say "MG Rover" or "Rover".
MG is just a brand name of ROVER, much like Dr Pepper is a brand name of Coca Cola.
Next time your lad is driving his chav mobile in the middle of the day time, tell him to switch them off (i know chavs normally hardwire this to make it impossible). |
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Mind of Clyde
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No, this will not be automatically thrown out. A judge would probably consider this "harmless error."
Your only chance would be to argue, and possibly establish, some legitimate reason why the case should be dismissed due to this error, ie., the cop pulled over the wrong vehicle OR based on the ticket, my son assumed the ticket was for someone else OR this particular vehicle does not even have fog lights.
Any argument would be a real stretch, and you may aggravate the prosecuting attorney or the judge. But if you're up for it, give it a shot. Set the ball in motion, and maybe the cop won't show up for court. |
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Veston Pants
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Give it a go but I doubt it.
xxB |
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Team Chief
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No. |
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mad keith
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if it was foggy then you should fight this in court how ever i doubt that it was foggy so why have the lights on no doubt he was just showing off |
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danonwheels
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I've had 1 a few years back and unless there is fog in the vicinity it is an offence,as regards to the MG thing unfortunatly for you that company is/was known in the uk as MG Rover so no loophole there sorry........ |
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Me-She
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That works for parking tickets in Los Angeles, so it just might work for this. It's worth a try. |
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SIR DAVE
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Yep. All details have to be precisely correct or else case is thrown out. |
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