Disabled road tax use

robti

Hi my mother has just given up driving and sold her car, now she has the disabled car tax ( sorry don’t  ( know the correct phrase) anyway can it be transfer over to me as I now only use the car to take her shopping and to the doctors clinic when needed. I know it’s not for my personal use but wondered if I got stopped on the way home after dropping her of ?
 Thanks 

AdrianC

You ONLY use your car to do her shopping or take her to medical appointments? That's IT? 100% of the journeys you cover in that car are directly related to her needs...? Not 95%, not 85%, but 100%...?

Then yes.
Otherwise, no.

https://www.gov.uk/financial-help-disabled/vehicles-and-transport

The vehicle must be registered in the disabled person’s name or their nominated driver’s name.

It must only be used for the disabled person’s personal needs. It cannot be used by the nominated driver for their own personal use.

Car_54

Driving "home after dropping her of (f?)" is not for her personal needs. It's to save you walking or taking public transport.

AIUI you'd need to keep the car at your mother's.

Hasbeen

robti said:

 as I now only use the car to take her shopping and to the doctors clinic when needed. I know it’s not for my personal use but wondered if I got stopped on the way home after dropping her of ?
 Thanks 

As your car is as you say, only used to take her shopping or to the doctors then as long as your the nominated driver then all good.

But you have to keep the car at your mothers.

Herzlos

Car_54 said:

Driving "home after dropping her of (f?)" is not for her personal needs. It's to save you walking or taking public transport.

AIUI you'd need to keep the car at your mother's.

Is there really an expectation that someone driving a disabled person to an appointment in a disability taxed car would not take the car home again? That they'd either need to leave it in the hospital car park for several hours and get a bus home, or wait in the hospital for hours?

Car_54

Herzlos said:

Car_54 said:

Driving "home after dropping her of (f?)" is not for her personal needs. It's to save you walking or taking public transport.

AIUI you'd need to keep the car at your mother's.

Is there really an expectation that someone driving a disabled person to an appointment in a disability taxed car would not take the car home again? That they'd either need to leave it in the hospital car park for several hours and get a bus home, or wait in the hospital for hours?

But the OP was asking about returning from his mum's home, not a hospital.

MinuteNoodles

Car_54 said:

Driving "home after dropping her of (f?)" is not for her personal needs. It's to save you walking or taking public transport.

AIUI you'd need to keep the car at your mother's.

Sorry but that is completely wrong. Read any advice from any disability support group about it and travel to and from your home to either the disabled person's home or wherever you're going to pick something up on their behalf is perfectly fine.

Car_54

MinuteNoodles said:

Car_54 said:

Driving "home after dropping her of (f?)" is not for her personal needs. It's to save you walking or taking public transport.

AIUI you'd need to keep the car at your mother's.

Sorry but that is completely wrong. Read any advice from any disability support group about it and travel to and from your home to either the disabled person's home or wherever you're going to pick something up on their behalf is perfectly fine.

That's good.

Hasbeen

MinuteNoodles said:

Car_54 said:

Driving "home after dropping her of (f?)" is not for her personal needs. It's to save you walking or taking public transport.

AIUI you'd need to keep the car at your mother's.

Sorry but that is completely wrong. Read any advice from any disability support group about it and travel to and from your home to either the disabled person's home or wherever you're going to pick something up on their behalf is perfectly fine.

Er. Is that not for Mobility cars where that is allowed?

Advice from on line from people in same situation is that in Ops situation you cannot, but people take the risk as it is unusual to be stopped by police to check?

MinuteNoodles

Hasbeen said:

Er. Is that not for Mobility cars where that is allowed?

Nope.

chrisw

Theory - not allowed.

Chances of being stopped on way home, insured, not speeding - virtually zero.

Chances of police examining disability eligibility once stopped - zero.