Parking on road taxed and insured but no MOT

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hubb said:

I have nowhere else to park it.

Then you don't have a choice, just hope that you are lucky.

You could try further afield for an MOT, surely one of these can do it sooner

https://data.gov.uk/dataset/87de9bf8-b936-44ff-89c4-f69f8f9bb9c1/mot-test-centres-in-great-britain

onomatopoeia99

hubb said:

Apparently you can leave it on the road if your car is booked in for an MOT and you can prove it. Mine is. With covid causing backlogs they have to be lenient. 

Don't know where you got that from, but the decision in Richards which allows the journey to / from the test station to be broken (e.g. to buy petrol) when using an exempt vehicle is unlikely to stretch to leaving it parked on the road if you've got a test booked next week.  Well, it won't.  The judgment specifically mentions "common sense" and judges are as capable as anyone of seeing that booking a test on a future date does not grant the vehicle exempt status from the moment when the test is booked, only for the journey to and from the test station.

lesalanos

Mickey666 said:

hubb said:

Car_54 said:

hubb said:

Apparently you can leave it on the road if your car is booked in for an MOT and you can prove it. Mine is. With covid causing backlogs they have to be lenient. 

AFAIK the exemption allows you only to drive to the test centre. It doesn't cover parking prior to that.

I have nowhere else to park it.

I doubt that defence would stand up in court.  I suspect the mitigating circumstances (covid backlog, not using the car, booked in for a test etc) would minimise the fine but I doubt the court has the discretion to ignore the offence altogether, if brought before it.

As previously mentioned, without an MoT certificate the car is not road-legal, yet it is on the road, which is an offence.  It's black and white - just like speeding.  Sure, driving at 80mph on an empty motorway, in broad daylight, in dry conditions would not be considered as 'dangerous' by the vast majority of people, but dangerous driving is not the offence - it's exceeding the speed limit.  No ifs, no buts.

Unlikely to get anywhere near courts though