When I received the NIP (notice of intended prosecution) I already had the change of owner notification the DVLA, as I wrote a few posts above I returned the form stating that the car was a Motability leased car and it was handed back on the ??/??/?? giving the dealers address. I also gave them Motabilitys Phone number if they required verification of these details.
I suspect that the NIP sent to me was simply a fishing expedition by the speeding enforcement people, they clearly knew from the DVLA that I wasn’t the keeper but by sending me the NIP they got me to tell them what had happened to the car. After I sent the form back the speeding enforcement people probably contacted the dealer and found out who the car had been sold to.
I received the NIP quite some time after the car had been handed back, the speeding offence had occurred about 3 days before I received the NIP, the speeding offence had happened locally.
The Dealer had probably sold the car and the new owner hadn’t bothered to register it, a £1000 fine for not registering the car and a speeding ticket not a good start.