[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Arrested for driving without road tax in about 2001. The offence took place in Essex where as I live in the midlands so it took about 3-4 years for them to catch up with me. They sent reminders - I ignored them, they sent a notice that a warrant for my arrest had been issued to my local station - I ignored it. Then about two week after that five coppers almost kicked my front door down and that is not an exaggeration - for a traffic offence. One of them gave me a load of bollox about how they dont know what the offence is when they do arrests like that so have to use force. I was like 'whatever mate'. All this happened in front of my neighbours but thankfully my daughter was not there.

Night in the cells - which I do not recommend at all - and they drove me to Harlow to be tried and cuz I already had a night in the cells they gave no future punishment.

The journey to Harlow was only one way so I then had to find my own way home from down south.

Lesson learnt - Never ever ignore police notices

Yeah I ended up with 6 points for failing to provide driver information years ago (I did provide it but outside time frame) which hiked my insurance right up. Not good to ignore those types of things