Car parked on private driveway - what can we do?

vikingaero

Get 4 big blokes - one each corner and bounce it off the drive.

AlexisV

The problem is that once it's on the road it's a pig to manoeuvre and park. You can't just obstruct the public highway.

First off I would trace the owner by paying £2.50 to the DVLA: http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@motor/documents/digitalasset/dg_065303.pdf

You're best off covering yourself and making all reasonable efforts now in case it becomes necessary to damage the car e..g break a window to release the handbrake, in order to remove it later.

Richard_T_

Have you tried contacting the police in case the cars been abandoned, as it could have been used in a crime, or be lacking insurance etc?
asuming youve tried everything, and it is causing an obstruction you could try and finmd someone with some car dollies, these are small wheeled trolley things that fit under the wheels of a car, Jack each wheel up, put a dolley under each wheel, and move the car.
jack it up again once its in an out of the way position, and remove the dolleys.

Mr_Ted

:rotfl:Put a note on it saying FREE or SCRAP :rotfl:

probably wont be there long and the insurance will be invalid as its on Private Property illegally :rotfl:

taffy056

Mr_Ted wrote: »

probably wont be there long and the insurance will be invalid as its on Private Property illegally

Nope parking on private land is not illegal, even if its someone's drive, and the insurance won't become invalid on it.

withabix

Just trolley-jack it and stick it in the middle of the road.

Job done.

Mr_Ted

taffy056 wrote: »

Nope parking on private land is not illegal, even if its someone's drive, and the insurance won't become invalid on it.

I wouldnt be so sure about that as many people who have land can drive on it without insurance so cant see any insurance company complying under these circumstances of self inflicted injury

Kite2010

AlexisV wrote: »

The problem is that once it's on the road it's a pig to manoeuvre and park. You can't just obstruct the public highway.

First off I would trace the owner by paying £2.50 to the DVLA: http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/@motor/documents/digitalasset/dg_065303.pdf

You're best off covering yourself and making all reasonable efforts now in case it becomes necessary to damage the car e..g break a window to release the handbrake, in order to remove it later.

But probably by the time the DVLA get backs to the OP with the details, the car would have been moved (hopefully)

Rover_Driver

Mr_Ted wrote: »

I wouldnt be so sure about that as many people who have land can drive on it without insurance so cant see any insurance company complying under these circumstances of self inflicted injury

Although insurance may not be required on private land, if you have insurance cover it is not necessarily affected just because it is on private land.

lostinthewoods

May I suggest you contact the police again and ask them to make an enquiry of the registered keeper. You can give your contact details if you want someone to call you. A couple of scenarios suggest themselves. It could be an overdue hiring, in which case it is probably not yet reported stolen but the company would be glad to have it back. It could be missing but not yet reported. It could be a clone of a real car, and the enquiry by your local police would turn up something more interesting. It could even be an accident - no really. There are people who hire out their drives as parking spaces and this might just have ended up on yours by mistake. We don't really know, but asking the local old bill nicely to make contact for you without breaching data protection will probably resolve it quickly.