A MYSTIFIED man found himself before a Limerick court this week charged with speeding in a car he didn’t buy, doesn’t own, and has never even seen or sat in, much less driven.
The man had been summonsed on an allegation of being found driving over the speed limit last September by a Go Safe speed van operator.
“The car isn’t mine. I didn’t buy it, I’ve never driven it, and I didn’t sign any log book,” the man said in evidence before Kilmallock District Court.
He told Judge Patricia Harney that the first he heard of the vehicle was when documents concerning the speeding allegation arrived at his home.
“I went to the Garda station and told them I didn’t own the car and never have. A Garda told me the car had been seized and impounded after being stopped with no tax or insurance and that someone with all the documentation arrived at the pound and reclaimed it.”
Inspector Gary Thompson said the matter is now under Garda investigation but the accused man said “there is still the problem of someone out there, driving a car around the streets in my name”.
Judge Harney commended the man on having “done all you could as a concerned citizen in bringing this matter to the attention of the Gardaí. The Gardaí will now follow up.”
