Quad bike on private road

paddedjohn

No it wont, your driveway is private property as you say just like tesco car park but it doesnt have public access in the same way.

Chopper_Read

Tilt wrote: »

I was using the term as an example. but yes, there is no such offence it is either careless or dangerous driving.



No. I was supporting a relative who had been caught sleeping in his car in a boat yard at the end of a private road. It's amazing what you can learn about where/how you can get done even though you are not actually driving. You should try it sometime!



The other forum members will hopefully not be as ignorant of the law as you clearly are. I never said that a drive is a public place! I said land which has public access. Tesco car park isn't a public place either but the RTA can apply to it!!

Just a shame then the link you used said road or public place

If your relative was convicted it's you and him who are ignorant of the law.

Chopper_Read

Tilt wrote: »

No, but the rta can still apply as per sections you have quoted.

Ok then, why can you sorn a car and keep it on your drive?

You are using that patch of tarmac and may not have insurance.

Chopper_Read

tilt is failing big style now.

Tilt

Chopper_Read wrote: »

Just a shame then the link you used said road or public place

If your relative was convicted it's you and him who are ignorant of the law.

How do you work that out? I wasn't representing him, just there to support him. He was convicted of being 'in charge' of a motor vehicle while over the limit. His solicitor argued that the car was on private property at the time and he had no intention of driving (he was in a sleeping bag at the time). Maybe it was the police, his solicitor and the magistrates who were ignorant of the law then? But not you eh?

Bottom line is that in the OPs case, the RTA can still apply on a private road (some private roads can in fact, be drives)

paddedjohn

3: ‘Road or other place’
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The description 'road or other public place' includes, but is wider than, the definition of the term 'road' in general legislation. 'Road' may include a place where there is not a public right of way, but where there is access for the public. A public place is in general a place which is not a road but to which the public has access, such as a field used for parking at an agricultural show, or a car park for an inn, or a driveway from a public road to a hotel even although the proprietors had a right to exclude certain members of the public. A car park next to a public house may be a public place as well as a road, but one marked ‘private’ at a block of flats is not, while a garage forecourt is probably a public place. One of the principal issues in this topic is whether the public have access. Thus an isolated farmyard is not a public place, but a private road used by members of the public is likely to be.

Just because you have no gate it does not imply that the public have access.


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Tilt

Chopper_Read wrote: »

Ok then, why can you sorn a car and keep it on your drive?

You are using that patch of tarmac and may not have insurance.

You obviously missed the earlier posts which point out that CERTAIN MORE SERIOUS RTA MATTERS can apply to private land.

Tilt

Chopper_Read wrote: »

tilt is failing big style now.

LOL! No he isn't. At least he isn't being childish by using big black letters!

Chopper_Read

Tilt wrote: »

How do you work that out? I wasn't representing him, just there to support him. He was convicted of being 'in charge' of a motor vehicle while over the limit. His solicitor argued that the car was on private property at the time and he had no intention of driving (he was in a sleeping bag at the time). Maybe it was the police, his solicitor and the magistrates who were ignorant of the law then? But not you eh?

Bottom line is that in the OPs case, the RTA can still apply on a private road (some private roads can in fact, be drives)

Well you relative was probably stupid when interview. Or maybe like you tried to be clever and dropped himself in the 5hit.

Maybe the police and mags were ignorant. But who drove away from court?

Chopper_Read

Tilt wrote: »

You obviously missed the earlier posts which point out that CERTAIN MORE SERIOUS RTA MATTERS can apply to private land.

Did I really?

Chopper_Read wrote: »

Some of the rta needs to be on a road.