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Car noise has upset someone
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Even it's an eighty-eight year old woman, living on her own, who feels intimidated by young people with noisy cars?Harry_Flashman wrote: »Ignore it - anyone who lacks the decency to speak to you directly and hide behind an anonymous note isn't worth even thinking about.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
maninthestreet wrote: »Yes you can - complain to the police about this anti-social car use - the offender can be issued with a Section 59 notice for ant-social car use - two of them in 12 months and the car is impounded.
That's the one to go for.
It's got a non- standard exhaust, at an anti-social hour as well.
(At a guess no middle box, and a straight through back box on a 1380?)
If you are going to driving at that time, consider a different exhaust.
Strider can be reported for the same thing, if he likes to sit at the roadside picking fights.0 -
Even it's an eighty-eight year old woman, living on her own, who feels intimidated by young people with noisy cars?
Yet, they feel they can go up and touch their car knowing if caught it would be much harder to explain.
Whilst S59 could apply...(1)
Where a constable in uniform has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle is being used on any occasion in a manner which— (a)
contravenes section 3 or 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52)(careless and inconsiderate driving and prohibition of off-road driving), and
(b)
is causing, or is likely to cause, alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public,
he shall have the powers set out in subsection (3).
I doubt the police would consider a road legal car would be an annoyance. As a former owner of a car most likely louder than the OPs and it being inspected by VOSA the noise was never mentioned.0 -
Yet, they feel they can go up and touch their car knowing if caught it would be much harder to explain.
Whilst S59 could apply...
I doubt the police would consider a road legal car would be an annoyance. As a former owner of a car most likely louder than the OPs and it being inspected by VOSA the noise was never mentioned.
He would consider it an annoyance, if it was reported as such. I doubt your car is louder than the op's.
It's probably similar to one of mine, and I wouldn't start it at 6.30 in the morning.0 -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p-SFxVBn5g&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
I await the "oh my god think of the kitten comments".
Poor camera by the wife though, camera mount is a great option for 2011.0 -
Yet, they feel they can go up and touch their car knowing if caught it would be much harder to explain.
And your point???
A police officer will consider a road legal car to be an annoyance, if it is being used as such; that is one very important point of the law being referred to here. I also suspect that VOSA s not concerned with the annoyance factor of a car, only if it passes the relevant tests.Whilst S59 could apply...
I doubt the police would consider a road legal car would be an annoyance. As a former owner of a car most likely louder than the OPs and it being inspected by VOSA the noise was never mentioned.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
And your point???
A police officer will consider a road legal car to be an annoyance, if it is being used as such; that is one very important point of the law being referred to here. I also suspect that VOSA s not concerned with the annoyance factor of a car, only if it passes the relevant tests.
My point, it's easier to approach a neighbour and have a chat than that neighbour finding you leaving a note on their car.
How is an annoyance to go to work?0 -
My point, it's easier to approach a neighbour and have a chat than that neighbour finding you leaving a note on their car.
That would very much depend on how the neighbour thinks any approach maybe perceived and that leaving a polite note was the better option. I see from your video that you are very much the sort of driver who would defend any lack of courtesy of theirs, no matter what.How is an annoyance to go to work?
I didn't write that it was an annoyance to go to work, you are now attempting avoiding the issue.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0 -
And your point???
A police officer will consider a road legal car to be an annoyance, if it is being used as such; that is one very important point of the law being referred to here. I also suspect that VOSA s not concerned with the annoyance factor of a car, only if it passes the relevant tests.
Of course it's not road legal, it's an mot fail, so VOSA may well be interested in to why it has a valid mot.0 -
Of course it's not road legal, it's an mot fail, so VOSA may well be interested in to why it has a valid mot.
What has MOTs got to with anti-social use of a car?The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
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