Unlicenced driver - can they drive on non public roads?

spacey2012

The rules only apply to what suits them.
End of story

mgdavid

paddedjohn wrote: »

If the car has a policy then the insurance will have to pay out any 3rd party claims regardless of who was driving or where.

untrue - best example is if it is stolen and then involved in a collision, the innocent victim needs to be fully comp and claim on his own insurance as the stolen car's owner's insurance will not pay out.

Yorkie1

There are two separate 'public' issues raised in this thread, which are a little overlapped.

A car park is not a road as defined by s.192 (ignoring the public access issue - it's the rest of the definition which isn't met). Therefore the licence offence is not relevant. However, the offence of no insurance can be committed on a road or other public place - and a car park meets the test of a public place.

vaio

mgdavid wrote: »

untrue - best example is if it is stolen and then involved in a collision, the innocent victim needs to be fully comp and claim on his own insurance as the stolen car's owner's insurance will not pay out.

Nah, read RTA 1988 s151

Aretnap

Yorkie1 wrote: »

There are two separate 'public' issues raised in this thread, which are a little overlapped.

A car park is not a road as defined by s.192 (ignoring the public access issue - it's the rest of the definition which isn't met). Therefore the licence offence is not relevant. However, the offence of no insurance can be committed on a road or other public place - and a car park meets the test of a public place.

Indeed, there are sections of the RTA which apply only on a "road", others which apply on "a road or other public place". The requirement to hold a licence only applies on a road. So in theory you could legally drive in a public car park with no licence - but only if you could find someone willing to insure you with no licence.