I traded in my car over a month ago to a dealership and just got a violation notice in the mail for someone driving on a toll road a mountain over from me. I knew I wasn’t tripping and checked an app that tracks all my driving in my new car and I was actually no where near my own house or near this toll road when this happened. I hate toll roads and would never voluntarily drive on one.
Anyway, I called the toll road place up and was surprised when she said that the car was my old car, not the newer car I just got. The license plate listed on the violation was not the same license plate I had when I had that car. I was thinking this license plate was for my newer car, its temporary license plate, but even that didn’t make sense because I got my permanent plates pretty quickly and put them on ASAP.
The toll road wants me to email them with some information about myself and saying I no longer own the car. But honestly, I don’t know where this stuff is like the bill of sale or release for my old car. Maybe it’s in my paperwork from the dealership? Maybe not. I don’t know, but it’s crazy I need to go get this information because of something someone else did after I let go of the car.
So what would happen if I just ignore this and move on with my life? The violation notice says there will be a lean on the vehicle if I don’t respond by March 2025, but, again, not my vehicle.
Can anything happen to me? I’m also not feeling this because I don’t like that a company is requesting me to send information about myself to them for something I have no knowledge about. How do I even know this is legit and not a scammer posing as the toll road?!
I think it’s safer to just send them a simple email saying you traded that car into a dealership (on whatever date if you have that) and also that was never your license plate number. That should be enough for any reasonable person to fix it. If you ignore it they might start adding charges on and it will get worse.