Non MOT vehicle parked outside my house

andygb

I don't usually get wound up by cars parking outside my house, because parking is tight and I don't mind walking a bit as long as my car is parked OK.
However, at the weekend I had to get bags of cement, pea shingle and large bags of compost.
So, we left early Saturday and went to the local Wickes. When we got back, there was a van parked right in front of the house, parked right in the middle of a space which would have taken three cars. We know all the cars in the road, and do not recognise this van, and the neighbours are non the wiser either.
At some point yesterday it was turned around but still parked inconsiderately.
It is still there today, but I decided to put the reg number into the government site, and although it is taxed, the MOT is over six months expired.
Bearing in mind the insurance side of things, should this vehicle be parked on the road without an MOT?
Should I report it and if so, to who?

Astronaughtwannabe

I'm so glad you got your bags of cement, pea shingle and compost, however you seem to be mistaking 2015 for 2005. There's no spare cops about so reporting it might well lead to nothing - ergo further frustration?

It'll probably dissapear in a few days, never to be seen again. Get on with your life in the meantime.

Swipe

It's legal parked on the road with no MOT as long as it has tax and insurance.

Quentin

andygb wrote: »

.....Bearing in mind the insurance side of things, should this vehicle be parked on the road without an MOT?

You tell us your investigations have found the van to be taxed. What makes you think it has no insurance?


(No MOT is irrelevant as far as "the insurance side of things" goes)

Strider590

Have you checked whether it's taxed/insured?

Regardless, I don't think MOT is a legal requirement in the same way that tax/insurance are.

TBH these days, if you see a van without tax/mot, it's either from Bradford or it's travellers. Because no-one else can get away with it.

marvin

So much ill-informed opinion MOT is a requirement of valid insurance not sure where you get the idea it is not.

http://www.octagoninsurance.com/guide/tips/mot-means-car-insurance/

email or tweet your local plod with the details and then forget about it.

Quentin

marvin wrote: »

So much ill-informed opinion MOT is a requirement of valid insurance not sure where you get the idea it is not....

The info given in your link is incorrect.


Your insurance is not invalidated if you have no MOT.


(Not me saying that, check it out with the FOS)


Though it doesn't stop unscrupulous insurance firms perpetuating the myth and attempting to use no MOT to wriggle out of claims!

RS2000.

marvin wrote: »

So much ill-informed opinion MOT is a requirement of valid insurance not sure where you get the idea it is not.

http://www.octagoninsurance.com/guide/tips/mot-means-car-insurance/

email or tweet your local plod with the details and then forget about it.

So you drive to a pre book mot test with an expired mot and you have no insurance? I think not.

RS2000.

Strider590 wrote: »

Have you checked whether it's taxed/insured?

Regardless, I don't think MOT is a legal requirement in the same way that tax/insurance are.

TBH these days, if you see a van without tax/mot, it's either from Bradford or it's travellers. Because no-one else can get away with it.

It needs a mot to be on a road but not in a public place.

photome

marvin wrote: »

So much ill-informed opinion MOT is a requirement of valid insurance not sure where you get the idea it is not.

http://www.octagoninsurance.com/guide/tips/mot-means-car-insurance/

email or tweet your local plod with the details and then forget about it.

Happens everytime this question comes up.

So much ill-informed opinion, and it always comes back to, your insurance will be valid without an MOT

marvin

RS2000. wrote: »

So you drive to a pre book mot test with an expired mot and you have no insurance? I think not.

And where does it say that?

It says an unreasonable distance, further Sussex police say if you stop at say a shop on the way you are not using the exemption in the way it is intended and would be deemed as using the car and if caught would be prosecuted.

I am not here to try and persuade you, you are wrong, that is for you to decide. It is illegal to drive without am MOT that is not in doubt I hope.

As I said OP email or tweet plod the details and forget it, the computer system knows it has no MOT if they pass an ANPR they will get caught anyway.

Invalidation of the insurance policy for no MOT is in the T&C of the policy it is on mine I suggest you check it on yours.