sorn drama !

badgerhead

hi, right i got a little fiesta, my insurance ran out a few months ago, i didnt renew so i got the vehicle sorned.

now it still has valid tax and mot, but my missus wants to drive it in a few days. she has an insurance policy for her car, which states she is also insured third party to drive any other vehicle.

so what im getting at is she allowed to drive it? or will she get ruffed up by some coppers for driving a sorned vehicle ?


cheers

fivetide

badgerhead wrote: »

hi, right i got a little fiesta, my insurance ran out a few months ago, i didnt renew so i got the vehicle sorned.

With you.

now it still has valid tax

Nope, lost me.

If it is sorned it doesn't have valid tax and it will ping ANPR. Not sure who will get done for it but the car should not be on the road.

People have been done for 'driving' a sorned vehicle when it was being towed to a garage!

5t.

flang

Also im pretty sure that in order to drive a vehicle third party on another policy the vehicle has to be insured.

Nuthatch_2

I agree with Fivetide above - i used to work for DVLA and once a SORN application is made, this knocks any tax off the vehicle's record at DVLA and subsequantly ANPR will show the car as untaxed and SORN and it is an offence to drive a SORN vehicle and keep it parked on the public raod.

Also if your irlfriend is insured to drive a different car - but is also insurde 3rd party to drive other cars, if the other car she's driving isn't insured, then it is an offence regardless of this 3rd party cover she has - the car must be insured to be on the road.

Hammyman

badgerhead wrote: »

now it still has valid tax and mot, but my missus wants to drive it in a few days. she has an insurance policy for her car, which states she is also insured third party to drive any other vehicle.

so what im getting at is she allowed to drive it? or will she get ruffed up by some coppers for driving a sorned vehicle ?


cheers

It depends entirely on whether her insurance policy requires the car to be insured in its own right, i.e there has to be an active policy on that vehicle. More and more are stipulating this.

badgerhead

right, what i meant by valid insurance is that it has a tax till september, the reason fpr sorn was no insurance so wasmoved off road. so are you saying the tax disc is now redundant ?

basically the wife was after using the car for a day without getting a 12 month policy on the car

kizkiz

Yes, the tax disc is redundant.

badgerhead

right cheers

mikey72

Didn't you get a refund on the outstanding tax?

mandragora_2

don't put a sorned car on the road - even for the shortest time. Someone will grass you up as sure as eggs are eggs, and it costs a fortune to sort it - my friend's son has just been caught this way. He had it on the roadside for a day while he was working on another car in the driveway - it got clamped - so there was a charge to remove it; he got fined; was told he had another charge to pay unless he retaxed it immediately. Cost about £500 in total.

emmell

I also thought the 'driving third party' does not apply if the vehicle is owned by your spouse.
ML.