Car left in street

busiscoming2

A neighbour moved in the week but has left a car behind, now parked on the road (was always on their drive). It is not taxed and I know it has no insurance, if they don't collect it soon who should be told? council, police or DVLA? Don't know where they have gone to.

LandyAndy

You can report untaxed cars, that are on the public road, on the DVLA website.

Don't expect them to act very quickly though.

hartcjhart

busiscoming2 wrote: »

A neighbour moved in the week but has left a car behind, now parked on the road (was always on their drive). It is not taxed and I know it has no insurance, if they don't collect it soon who should be told? council, police or DVLA? Don't know where they have gone to.

all 3,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Sandrock

LandyAndy wrote: »

You can report untaxed cars, that are on the public road, on the DVLA website.

Don't expect them to act very quickly though.

In my experience, they act very quickly indeed!

jazzy

Sandrock wrote: »

In my experience, they act very quickly indeed!

Not in my experience. I reported a car to the DVLA which was dumped in my street and nothing ever happened.
After several weeks I phoned the council and they were up the next day to arrange to take the vehicle away.

Chippy_Minton_2

Why not cut the guy some slack?

Moving is an expensive businsess, someone will know where he is and could contact him.

Sandrock

jazzy wrote: »

Not in my experience. I reported a car to the DVLA which was dumped in my street and nothing ever happened.
After several weeks I phoned the council and they were up the next day to arrange to take the vehicle away.

Fair enough. I've only used them twice to report untaxed cars - one appeared abandoned and the other was a former neighbour who I know was still using the car and also had no insurance. Both times a clamp was placed on the car within 48 hours of my online report, the abandoned car was lifted about a week later and the other had a fresh new tax disc several days later.

vikingaero

Chippy_Minton wrote: »

Why not cut the guy some slack?

Moving is an expensive businsess, someone will know where he is and could contact him.

Because someone like the owner of the untaxed and uninsured vehicle is several times more likely to not give a rats arris, have an accident and kill your friends and family.

Chippy_Minton_2

vikingaero wrote: »

Because someone like the owner of the untaxed and uninsured vehicle is several times more likely to not give a rats arris, have an accident and kill your friends and family.

What when it's parked up?

How does the OP know it aint insured?

molerat

probably http://www.askmid.com/ownvehicle/

Mids_Costcutter

Your local council should also have a number / page on their web site to report abandoned vehicles.