My Car Broke Down and Police Recovery Took It To Compound

arcon5

The officers sound like complete jobworths

arcon5

Wig wrote: »

And add a smashed window to the bill, and an arrest for willful obstruction? Not a great idea, ok to try it on for a few minutes but you have to know when to back down.

Also what would be the legal situation in if both recovery firms turn up yours and the police.... yours is free the police would have to pay for the call out of theirs if yours was allowed to take it. So my guess is the police would order your tow truck to move on and stop obstructing a police matter.

What rights would the police have to move the truck along? A breakdown isn't a police matter it's not a crime.

Johno100

arcon5 wrote: »

The officers sound like complete jobworths

With a Christmas party to pay for.:rotfl:

Hermione_Granger

arcon5 wrote: »

What rights would the police have to move the truck along? A breakdown isn't a police matter it's not a crime.

A breakdown isn't a police matter but a broken down vehicle causing a hazard or obstruction is.
It's down to the opinion of the officers at the scene. If one of them considers that the vehicle is causing an obstruction, then they have the legal right to arrange for it to be moved.

arcon5

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

A breakdown isn't a police matter but a broken down vehicle causing a hazard or obstruction is.
It's down to the opinion of the officers at the scene. If one of them considers that the vehicle is causing an obstruction, then they have the legal right to arrange for it to be moved.

Which it doesn't sound like it was and recovery was already being organised. One hour is a reasonably time scale, especially bearing in mind even the police couldn't get it shifted any quicker.
But that doesn't answer what right they'd have to move on ops recovery truck considering the very purpose of the truck is to clear the obstruction and/or hazard

Warwick_Hunt

arcon5 wrote: »

Which it doesn't sound like it was and recovery was already being organised. One hour is a reasonably time scale, especially bearing in mind even the police couldn't get it shifted any quicker.
But that doesn't answer what right they'd have to move on ops recovery truck considering the very purpose of the truck is to clear the obstruction and/or hazard

An hour is not considered a reasonable amount to time to wait for recovery. As already stated it’s 30 minutes.

phillw

Warwick_Hunt wrote: »

An hour is not considered a reasonable amount to time to wait for recovery. As already stated it’s 30 minutes.

Which is not achievable by any recovery company, including the one that the police use.

This relates to motorways, but according to the highway agency

https://www.lovemoney.com/news/23181/breakdown-cover-fine-motorway

"Where a vehicle has been cleared to the hard shoulder or emergency refuge area and is not causing obstruction or danger to other road users, the vehicle owner will be given the opportunity to arrange their own recovery."

TH71

phillw wrote: »

Which is not achievable by any recovery company, including the one that the police use.

This relates to motorways, but according to the highway agency

https://www.lovemoney.com/news/23181/breakdown-cover-fine-motorway

"Where a vehicle has been cleared to the hard shoulder or emergency refuge area and is not causing obstruction or danger to other road users, the vehicle owner will be given the opportunity to arrange their own recovery."

We saw that page on lovemoney on friday

Anyway just got in from sorting the car out down at Richford Motor Services in Alfreton and we are £190 lighter at present. £150 plus the 2 x £20 daily fees. What a job. They completely emptied our car of all our belongings and put them in a clear bag. It was like evidence from a crime scene...unbelievable

Now the good bit. Once I reluctantly handed the cash over and also said to those at Richford the car should not be there anyway, and they just blamed the police. We then sorted out getting our car picked up by our own Breakdown service to take the car back to our local garage

Guess which breakdown recovery service our Insurance set up on bringing the car back to our local garage..................yep RICHFORD MOTOR SERVICES

Why the bloody hell did they not do that in the first place. Was this the breakdown service that was recovering us in the first place?

For a car that simply broke down, not abandoned or driven illegally and also not blocking the carriageway, and us not allowed to use our 'own' breakdown to start with due to this half hour rule is bull

I hope the police officer has a report of how this panned out on Thursday evening as we have not finished with this yet

jimmy_cricket

TH71 wrote: »

We saw that page on lovemoney on friday

Anyway just got in from sorting the car out down at Richford Motor Services in Alfreton and we are £190 lighter at present. £150 plus the 2 x £20 daily fees. What a job. They completely emptied our car of all our belongings and put them in a clear bag. It was like evidence from a crime scene...unbelievable

Now the good bit. Once I reluctantly handed the cash over and also said to those at Richford the car should not be there anyway, and they just blamed the police. We then sorted out getting our car picked up by our own Breakdown service to take the car back to our local garage

Guess which breakdown recovery service our Insurance set up on bringing the car back to our local garage..................yep RICHFORD MOTOR SERVICES

Why the bloody hell did they not do that in the first place. Was this the breakdown service that was recovering us in the first place?

For a car that simply broke down, not abandoned or driven illegally and also not blocking the carriageway, and us not allowed to use our 'own' breakdown to start with due to this half hour rule is bull

I hope the police officer has a report of how this panned out on Thursday evening as we have not finished with this yet

They would have been £190 quid down

TH71

jimmy_cricket wrote: »

They would have been £190 quid down

Therefore not as much booze at their Christmas party :beer: