Not The Best Evening!

[Smowball]

A friend asked me to help her out with work the other night, and she txt me the address as I had never been there.Got to a local main road which is normally bumper to bumper and it was clear, so without realising my speed went over the speed limit. Within 10 seconds a policeman who had been hiding in a driveway jumped out and flagged me down, asking me to pull off the road. After loads of questions he finally told me I had been speeding. I was surprised but accepted it.
Then it gets worse... he asks if I have my license on me - yes I do officer!
So I hand it over and am waiting to just get in my car and get to my friend when he tells me my license has expired - 2 years ago!!! I look at him in disbelief and think he has to be joking. Not he is not.For some reason my brain had in it the same expiry date for the paper license as the plastic part.No. The plastic bit is every 10 years, so now he tells me I could get a £1000 fine from DVLA. Am slightly freaking out at this point, he tells me that he wont reort it himself but it may well be picked up on when I produce my documents, which ive already done and yes they held my license to send off.

So now I am just waiting to see whether a hefty fine comes through my door......(

[josaphine32]

Not nice, I did mine back in march, did you not get a reminder, my sisters lapsed a while before I told her driving licence have to be renewed every 10 years, more money to pay to drive a car, it is wrong in my eyes, licence to drive mine says 2042, if they want pictures renewed then it should be free, so sorry for you smow, x

[Dee Sa]

oh smow poor you, don't want to make things worse but does this mean that you insurance would be null & void. I went straight to check mine ,its next year but I wasn't sure. Hope they do not give you a big fine especially when you were helping out friend, pls let us all know.

[Marijn]

Thanks Eccles. It's not fair that they penalise people who let their plastic ones run out of date, if they don't actually need to have one in the first place.

[society]

Hope everything work out in your favour.