According to British motoring law, failing or refusing to name the person driving your vehicle at the time of an accident is a greater offence than actually driving the car during the accident yourself.

Several cases are stuck in court when people fail to name their drivers, and though it might seem a very brave thing to do, it is seriously foolish decision! Accidents are quite common happenings, and though serious sometimes, even the best drivers really cant avoid them.

Something that is quite common when more serious accidents take place is for the driver to flee from the scene before anyone discovers him there. When the car is found, it is then traced back to the owner who must identify who was driving at the time of the accident, otherwise is faced with two potential charges, failing to name the driver, and the causing of the accident itself.

Organisations that hire drivers, for example, couriers and taxi firms, do not know the address of their drivers and will usually only have a mobile number which is easily losable. So the moral is, if you employ drivers, make sure that you conduct the necessary background checks and that you know all of their details so that you are not liable when something untoward happens.

Every year there are thousands of cases where an accident has happened and the owner of the vehicle says he doesnt know who was driving the car at the time. This is almost always resolved by a witness to the crash identifying the driver who then gets fined for the crash, and the owner of the vehicle gets charged with failure to name the driver, the latter of which carries the greater punishment.

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