New road offence
Say a car failed to stop, all occupants de-camp and no visual or cctv of who the driver was. All occupants are caught.
I’ve had a job like this recently where everything was NFA’d because no driver could be identified. Was gutted as the pursuit was so risky, it felt like justice hadn’t been done.
Sorry if there is already a similar offence, but why couldn’t one be created, or like a special warning interview question, where failure to identify who the driver was is a separate offence?
I’m struggling to see any sort of defence they could give? If they say they don’t know the name etc, fine, point him out in the BWV etc.
If they all commit to no comment, they all get charged. I know there is the offence for ‘allowing to be carried’ but this is different. The creation of the offence would be to identify the driver so that it prevents NOTHING happening if the police don’t know who the driver was.
And yes, I realise this isn’t all airtight.