Hello Fellows,
As bizarre as it sounds, it did happen to me. It is a matter of change in address. However, while the licence shows the current address, VicRoads continued sending Rego letter and other Infringement Notices to the previous address. And no rego sticker these days made it even harder to remember when Rego falls due.
Well, the car was unregistered and there is a red-light offence. What makes it worse is the fine for driving unregistered car. However, it does not end here, as even this fine went to the wrong address and we were unaware of it for long. Likewise few more fines from last year which have been escalated now.
How did I get to know that? I called up Vic Roads (proactively) inquiring about my Rego reminder and they mentioned about "unregistered car". Second sensible thing to do was to follow it up with Civil Compliance Victoria (proactively) to ensure if the records were clean and then I learned about the other fines.
Finally, there are few fines at exactly one spot in small space of time. Only, if we had received the first fine, we would have corrected ourselves. We clearly missed that opportunity.
As infuriated as I am at the moment about the entire episode where I fail to find myself responsible for all these extra penalties, I wish to know what are my options now? I am filling in the forms for revocation of additional penalties on the pretext that I did not receive the letters, I am still nervous about the prospects.
Should not Vic Roads have updated my car registered address with Licence updation?
Now we are sitting at too many demerit points due to repeat fines at the same spot (totally avoidable after first instance).
Any suggestions about possible options now?
Thank you everyone.
Would really like to know this as well. Mum's friend was caught in a similar situation: moved house in 2012, updated address with VicRoad, was able to pay afterwards as well, even received discounts for having good record. All the sudden her car was clammed at the shopping center and she was slapped with a few ks fine for a fine from 2012 she was unaware of. She was not allow to take the car until she had paid, so she had no choice.
Clearly she had done all that she could to update her information and yet she was punished.