been there, done that, got the tshirt

all be it 15 years ago when i was driving a bus

i was charged with dangerous driving and had a court date and everything as the coppers not only stopped me, but they also called the garage to find out who was driving the bus at the time so they had me bang to rights as being the driver of that bus

anyway, it went to court and they had put the wrong date down so the bus company sent them the log card for the date they requested

as luck would have it, i was off that day so not only was my name not on the log card, my name wasn't down as driving that day and the bus was being driven by someone else at the time

judge threw it out and i didn't even enter a plea, i stayed absolutely quiet all the way through the 30 seconds of proceedings

i didn't have a solicitor as i was representing myself but i knew from the day they sent the paperwork with the charge listed that they were wrong and i just thought i would bluff it and see what happened

if you have someone to talk to who can advise you then by all means take their advice, but if the reg is incorrect you should be able to get away with a technicaility