AC-2025-LON-000004 - [2025] EWHC 2798 (Admin)

Fecha: 28-Oct-2025

Offence

Offence

Section 172(2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 provides as follows:

(2)

Where the driver of a vehicle is alleged to be guilty of an offence to which this section applies –

(a)

The person keeping the vehicle shall give such information as to the identity of the driver as he may be required to give by or on behalf of a chief officer of police…, and

(b)

Any other person shall if required as stated above give any information which it is in his power to give and may lead to identification of the driver.

Section 172(3) and (4) provides;

(3)

Subject to the following provisions, a person who fails to comply with a requirement under subsection (2) above shall be guilty of an offence.

(4)

A person shall not be guilty of an offence by virtue of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) above if he shows that he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained who the driver of the vehicle was.