fastpedaller wrote: ↑20 Jul 2021, 5:48pm
Would the police have progressed the case if the image wasn't clear enough (thus unable to identify the driver)?
it strikes me as an odd case all told, I just have a funny feeling the driver was already a known individual to the police, and so they were more interested than it usually feels to firstly FPN on the video alone and I wonder if that was initially dangerous driving or merely careless driving, because I guarantee any cyclist running a camera will have recorded footage like that at some point and their local force wont have been remotely interested in it, and then secondly once the driver is caught in the lie, using the video to prove the drivers identity for a perjury charge.
I mean maybe all the other drivers on the insurance for that car do not remotely look like the individual concerned so they only had to prove it could in all balance of probability only be this identified driver, and that clearly claiming someone in prison was driving it was enough to convict on
but it just feels like they went alot further than Id normally expect based purely on that video alone.