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Neighbour's car clamped - enforcement
Apologies if this is in the wrong place. I'm here just for a little bit of advice.
I have a neighbour who has been through several cars over the past two years. I have a feeling she may not have any insurance. The reason I think this is because she buys old shed cars and only drives them late at night or in the mornings. They stay outside her property most of the day (on a public road). Three times she has had cars which have been clamped with enforcement notices stuck on them (untaxed vehicles). Two have been removed and the third has had the clamp and notice put on today.
A further reason I think she may be driving uninsured is because she surely must be getting tax notices or warnings about her cars before they're clamped, yet she does nothing about it. Presumably she can afford tax because she can always afford an old car to replace the seized ones. This has made me think that she doesn't have insurance, and so she cannot purchase road tax for her car. It's my assumption that she buys cars with a few months' worth of tax on them, drives them around even when the tax has run out and just waits for them to be seized. She did attempt the hide the car on some council-owned woodlands behind our homes, but they must have asked her to move it because she parked it back outside her home a few days later.
A couple of heavies were knocking on her door about 10 days ago and she was hiding in the woodlands and kept sending her son to walk around to check whether they'd gone. They waited until 5pm and then left. They told my husband they were there about her untaxed vehicle. They weren't from the DVLA, but they looked like a pair of doormen in a plain white van!
My question really, is this: Is there any way she'll be legally reprimanded? She keeps pulling the same stunt over and over and nothing ever seems to be done about it. She just repeats the process over and over again. She's the neighbour from hell and is very well known to the police for her violent outbursts (including one aimed at me last summer) and she usually has the police or bailiffs knocking on her door every couple of months.
Will the police do anything about the fact that all these cars are being driven without insurance/tax etc?
Thanks in advance.
I have a neighbour who has been through several cars over the past two years. I have a feeling she may not have any insurance. The reason I think this is because she buys old shed cars and only drives them late at night or in the mornings. They stay outside her property most of the day (on a public road). Three times she has had cars which have been clamped with enforcement notices stuck on them (untaxed vehicles). Two have been removed and the third has had the clamp and notice put on today.
A further reason I think she may be driving uninsured is because she surely must be getting tax notices or warnings about her cars before they're clamped, yet she does nothing about it. Presumably she can afford tax because she can always afford an old car to replace the seized ones. This has made me think that she doesn't have insurance, and so she cannot purchase road tax for her car. It's my assumption that she buys cars with a few months' worth of tax on them, drives them around even when the tax has run out and just waits for them to be seized. She did attempt the hide the car on some council-owned woodlands behind our homes, but they must have asked her to move it because she parked it back outside her home a few days later.
A couple of heavies were knocking on her door about 10 days ago and she was hiding in the woodlands and kept sending her son to walk around to check whether they'd gone. They waited until 5pm and then left. They told my husband they were there about her untaxed vehicle. They weren't from the DVLA, but they looked like a pair of doormen in a plain white van!
My question really, is this: Is there any way she'll be legally reprimanded? She keeps pulling the same stunt over and over and nothing ever seems to be done about it. She just repeats the process over and over again. She's the neighbour from hell and is very well known to the police for her violent outbursts (including one aimed at me last summer) and she usually has the police or bailiffs knocking on her door every couple of months.
Will the police do anything about the fact that all these cars are being driven without insurance/tax etc?
Thanks in advance.
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The police will do what they can, but someone has to tell them.
You can check insurance status using askmid and you can report using crimestoppers.0 -
You can check whether your own vehicle is insured here http://www.askmid.com/
Of course they don't actually require proof that it's your vehicle, just the vehicle reg and your confirmation
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Ah! Thank you for the advice - I will do just that.
Much appreciated.0 -
As suspected - it is not insured ...0
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Sooner or later she'll probably ping an ANPR equipped car, or be stopped by a traffic cop (they like stopping sheds - they nearly always turn out to have something wrong with them, and as often as not are uninsured) and she'll get banned, or at least have a good few points added to her licence, but it could take a while.
If you want to hurry things up, you could call 101 or Crimestoppers and alert the police to the fact that she's driving them, rather than just leaving them in the car park. However unless you can be fairly specific with times and places it's unlikely that they'll do anything proactive - they don't have the resources to send someone to sit outside her house all week in case she gets into the car and drives off. However If you can tell them that every Wednesday at 9pm (or whatever) she drives to (wherever) they might just send the local bobby round one evening when he's got nothing else to do and get an easy pull.0 -
Worth a note to plod.
Could well be she buys cars with tax on but never gets them taxed because she can't get insurance. She might even be banned from driving.What if there was no such thing as a rhetorical question?0 -
It is this sort of person who causes problems for the rest of us, particularly when they have an accident. Very often they will drive off, and then they cannot be traced.
I would suggest that the OP gives local plod a ring ASAP.0 -
It is this sort of person who causes problems for the rest of us, particularly when they have an accident. Very often they will drive off, and then they cannot be traced.
I would suggest that the OP gives local plod a ring ASAP.
you could tell plod she has been drinking as well as driving with no insurance.... might hurry things up a bit0 -
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