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  • This highlights two clear problems which can easily extend to other more serious car related incidents and crimes.
    1) The registered owner of a vehicle must be held fully responsible for any actions commited by any driver or passenger of that vehicle unless another party is named and takes responsibility. This needs to be for the full period of time for which the vehicle is registered to them. "It's not my car anymore" should be as credible as SMIDSY.
    2) The chain of culpability should then flow through driver to passenger and all drivers should automatically be considered to be aiding and abetting any crime committed from a vehicle that they're driving unless they report it within 24 hours. There's enough ANPR cameras in the country, you just rack up the penalty for every camera you trip until you either report the crime or get pulled by the police.
    On top of that, penalties need to be a lot stiffer. After all, people whinge about things like paying £60 & 3 points for a speeding ticket. It doesn't seem to stop people speeding though. Income related penalties would be the way forward and more points.
    In the meantime, if anyone happens to be off to this part of Hampshire in the near future, take the make, model, colour and reg details and if you see it, give the local police a bell and let them know where they can find it.

    What would stop people speeding is ticketing ALL speeders in one go but they don't because they're sly: Only a percentage of speeders get done, therefore leaving many thinking/feeling they can get away with it, who will continue speeding. That is what keeps the money coming in for the collectors.

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