"Stephen X. Carter" wrote in message
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>
> Dredging through a hazy memory (so don't flame too hard if bits are
> wrong!)...
>
> Wasn't there a case not so long ago of a High Court Judge who owned a car
> that was caught
> speeding, and when asked who was driving he named someone who had (he
> said) since returned to
> the USA.
>
> She later turned out to have been dead several years.
>
> I seem to recall that he (in some form) repeated the deception (but I may
> be wrong about that).
>
> Eventually he was done for perjury.
>
> The point is that there has to be a get out for you. Have you even sought
> professional legal
> help on this?
Yep, the "get out" is the driver at the time accepting reponsibility.
If you choose to leave your car as a "free for all" while you go away you
are responsible for it usage. If you don't want to risk it, simple, just
hide the keys, they can ring you if they need it desperately or put a
specific trustworty "mate" in charge. If your "mates" won't admit to driving
the vehicle then they're not good mates or the vehicle was stolen.
If you come back from overseas and find your car has been upside down in a
ditch for 2 weeks, and your "mates" say they didn't drive it, do you just
take it on the chin and accept responsibility or tell the insurance company
nobody was driving it?
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