Non MOT vehicle parked outside my house

andygb

Quentin wrote: »

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)

Really, so apart from driving a vehicle to an MOT testing station, can you drive it on the road without an MOT?
I think that you have things mixed up somewhat.;)
I never mentioned that it had no insurance, I was just questioning what the reaction of the insurance company would be, if someone had an accident in a vehicle which was not MOT'd.

dacouch

andygb wrote: »

Really, so apart from driving a vehicle to an MOT testing station, can you drive it on the road without an MOT?
I think that you have things mixed up somewhat.;)
I never mentioned that it had no insurance, I was just questioning what the reaction of the insurance company would be, if someone had an accident in a vehicle which was not MOT'd.

The reaction from an Insurer would be nothing unless the car itself was unroadworthy. If the car itself was written off they might receive a lower payout if the car would not have passed an mot

loskie

Op you just sound like you are miffed that someone dares to park a van outside your house. Why mentions Wickes etc otherwise?

AdrianC

andygb wrote: »

is a large van - same size as a stretched transit - so can take up 3 spaces,

No, it can't.

Does it have orange side marker lights down it? If not, then - like the vast, vast majority of even "large" Transits, it's less than 6m long. Side markers are a legal requirement for anything over 6m long.
The longest Transit Ford currently sell is 6.7m and it is, frankly, bloody ginormous.

They didn't used to do Transits that big.

For comparison, a Mondeo is a tidge under 5m long. A Fiesta is just over 4m long.

Herzlos

Which means it'll overhang most spaces by about 1-1.7m, and if you do that so that you overhang by 0.5-0.85 each side, the other 2 spaces are pretty much unusable.

You don't have to fill 3 spaces to take them up, you just need to park so that no-one else can use them and if you're much longer than a single space that's not difficult.

Herzlos

andygb wrote: »

It has been moved a couple of times since I last posted. It is 13 years old and is a large van - same size as a stretched transit - so can take up 3 spaces,
Someone from outside our area is parking it there from dawn until night - very weird because we are in a rural location.

Someone locally has bought it but his car park has a restriction on parking commercial vehicles so he has to move it during the day?

duchy

Could be a contractor working in the area - Perhaps the OP could pop out and tell them their MOT has expired !!

As for the parking - if there are three empty spaces always available I'm guessing there's no demand for parking anyway so no one is inconvenienced .

andygb

loskie wrote: »

Op you just sound like you are miffed that someone dares to park a van outside your house. Why mentions Wickes etc otherwise?

No, just miffed that they didn't park considerately - the rest of us who live in the street do.
Anyway, it has gone and not returned, probably driven off during the night.;)