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Insurance Required Even If Not Driving

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  • paddedjohn
    paddedjohn Posts: 7,512 Forumite
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    Adams1 wrote: »
    Yes but, what is considered "off the road?" 80% of residents in London alone don't have a personal drive way or garage, so cars are kept on the street, in front of their homes. So in order to do this, you car needs to now be taxed AND insured?

    THIS is the ridiculous part. And yes, this law was only pushed through to grab more money out of LAW ABINDING CITIZENS and not the CRIMINALS who don't care about the LAW seen as they are CRIMINALS.

    Pfft.
    dont know where your coming from here, any vehicle that has no insurance or tax has always needed to be kept off the road regardeless of wether you have a drive or not. Law abiding citizens dont keep cars on the road that are untaxed or uninsured.
    Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    paddedjohn wrote: »

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    What to do as a vehicle keeper


    If you are not insured and use your vehicle on the road you are already committing an offence – get insured immediately.
    If you are keeping your vehicle off the road, make sure that you have submitted a SORN declaration to DVLA. If the vehicle is taxed you need to return the disc (including nil value discs) to DVLA using a V14 form. You can make a SORN declaration at the same time as returning the disc on the V14.


    This is what was on the DIRECTGOV site prior to last week.

    The reason for the return of the disc when SORNing (is that a real word?) the car is to withdraw the ability to keep the car on the road, even though it is SORNed, thus reducing the level of criminality.
    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 mark
  • Adams1
    Adams1 Posts: 328 Forumite
    paddedjohn wrote: »
    dont know where your coming from here, any vehicle that has no insurance or tax has always needed to be kept off the road regardeless of wether you have a drive or not. Law abiding citizens dont keep cars on the road that are untaxed or uninsured.

    I'm not talking about driving it on the road, I'm talking about having it "parked" on the road... Are you telling me anyone that previously had SORN made had to go buy private land to park their cars on? Err...
  • Inactive
    Inactive Posts: 14,509 Forumite
    edited 16 March 2011 at 3:07AM
    Adams1 wrote: »
    I'm not talking about driving it on the road, I'm talking about having it "parked" on the road... Are you telling me anyone that previously had SORN made had to go buy private land to park their cars on? Err...


    Effectively yes, no VED and SORN means that the vehicle should not be on the public highway.

    Driven or parked, makes no difference.

    Statutory Off Road Notification.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    Adams1 wrote: »
    I'm not talking about driving it on the road, I'm talking about having it "parked" on the road... Are you telling me anyone that previously had SORN made had to go buy private land to park their cars on? Err...

    I think the off road part should give a bit of a clue. ;)
    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 mark
  • paddedjohn
    paddedjohn Posts: 7,512 Forumite
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    edited 16 March 2011 at 4:09AM
    adams1 wrote: »
    i'm not talking about driving it on the road, i'm talking about having it "parked" on the road... Are you telling me anyone that previously had sorn made had to go buy private land to park their cars on? Err...
    Are you for real? Any car parked on a public road, used or not has to have insurance and valid road tax. If the car is SORN then it has to be off road. Did you know that SORN means 'Statutary Off Road Notification'? The clue is in the title.
    Be Alert..........Britain needs lerts.
  • Marvel1
    Marvel1 Posts: 7,461 Forumite
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    Adams1 wrote: »
    I'm not talking about driving it on the road, I'm talking about having it "parked" on the road... Are you telling me anyone that previously had SORN made had to go buy private land to park their cars on? Err...

    Are you serious?!
  • LittleMissAspie
    LittleMissAspie Posts: 2,130 Forumite
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    paddedjohn wrote: »
    If you are keeping your vehicle off the road, make sure that you have submitted a SORN declaration to DVLA. If the vehicle is taxed you need to return the disc (including nil value discs) to DVLA using a V14 form. You can make a SORN declaration at the same time as returning the disc on the V14.

    This is what was on the DIRECTGOV site prior to last week.
    I don't understand this. I made my car SORN a month before my tax disc ran out. At no point did anyone say I had to return the disc, no-one ever asked me for the disc. I've still got it. All they did was send me a letter confirming the SORN. Which was followed a couple of days later by another letter telling me my disc was about to run out and here's how I can renew it. But hey ho.
  • Flyboy152
    Flyboy152 Posts: 17,118 Forumite
    LittleMissAspie wrote: »
    I don't understand this. I made my car SORN a month before my tax disc ran out. At no point did anyone say I had to return the disc, no-one ever asked me for the disc. I've still got it. All they did was send me a letter confirming the SORN. Which was followed a couple of days later by another letter telling me my disc was about to run out and here's how I can renew it. But hey ho.

    That would be because the renewal would have been generated some time before you SORNed your 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 mark
  • mikey72
    mikey72 Posts: 14,680 Forumite
    LittleMissAspie wrote: »
    I don't understand this. I made my car SORN a month before my tax disc ran out. At no point did anyone say I had to return the disc, no-one ever asked me for the disc. I've still got it. All they did was send me a letter confirming the SORN. Which was followed a couple of days later by another letter telling me my disc was about to run out and here's how I can renew it. But hey ho.

    Did you jusr ring them up, or use the website?
    You will probably have crossed in the post, and they would have assumed you were responding to the renewal notice.
    If there is less than a month to run, the tax would have been allowed to run out, then SORN would have been in effect on the renewal date.
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