How to report uninsured vehicle parked on the road?

TooManyPoints

Vegastare said:

Is the car parked on the correct side of the road during the night or wrong side, wrong side without lights is £1000 fine.  At night a large van without lights - just an idea.

Wrong side at night, with or without lights, is an offence (except in a one-way street). Right side at night and lighting is only required if the speed limit is >30mph. The chance of getting either of these offences enforced is next to nothing. If it was easy, 50% of the cars in my area would get a ticket.

DB1904

ontheroad1970 said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

TooManyPoints said:

How do you now they are uninsured?

Go to askmid, and put in the reg.

As far as I am aware you are only allowed to do this under certain circumstances, such as when involved in an accident, due to Data Protection.  It won't show valid trader's insurance which would, as far as I know be against a trader's plate.

What's a traders plate? There's no requirement to have trade plates if you're a vehicle trader or have trade insurance. 

Sandtree

ontheroad1970 said:

Bigwheels1111 said:

TooManyPoints said:

How do you now they are uninsured?

Go to askmid, and put in the reg.

As far as I am aware you are only allowed to do this under certain circumstances, such as when involved in an accident, due to Data Protection.  It won't show valid trader's insurance which would, as far as I know be against a trader's plate.

Insurance isnt against trade plates. Trade plates are for road duty and keeper identification.

JustAnotherSaver

TooManyPoints said:

How do you now they are uninsured?

Jesus Christ *shakes head*

Gets brought up every time someone says they checked insurance. 

Who actually cares?

Go see PC Plod to report someone for checking insurance. After they've "yes yes right ok got that" to you they'll probably need to go change their pants after you've left from laughing so hard.

Grey_Critic

If you’re a motor trader or vehicle tester, trade licence plates allow you to carry out your business without registering and taxing every vehicle temporarily in your possession. All vehicles must be covered by insurance and have a valid MoT in place, unless they are exempt from MoT - The trader/tester must have an insurance policy that covers them for (a) their business use and (b) driving a customer’s vehicle that is taxed. Whilst some dealers will have several sets of trade plates most small operations will only have one set. Your neighbour cannot park multiple vehicles down the road and rely on his trade plates to cover him. They are only to help him carry out his day to day business and do not allow him to park multiple vehicles on the road. You can check if a vehicle is taxed on the DVLA website - You can report an untaxed vehicle on the DVLA website.

TooManyPoints

Jesus Christ *shakes head*

Depends I suppose. I'm not suggesting the police will be the remotest bit interested in the transgression. But that's not saying much. The police show a remarkable lack of interest in all manner of things and in any case I doubt the enforcement of the DPA is among the things they are responsible for.

But here we have an OP who has almost certainly used the MIB database to establish whether vehicles parked near his home are insured or not. It's against the DPA to do that and adequate warnings are provided if you attempt to do so. Effectively he's broken one law to establish if another has possibly been broken by somebody else (and as has been pointed out, that strategy is not entirely foolproof anyway). And he's done this because he does not like the idea of a neighbour owning a number of vehicles which he leaves in limited parking spaces. So the question really is, regardless of whether your transgression will be discovered,  is it OK to pick and choose which legislation you comply with and which you don't? Personally I think not but you're obviously not so fussy.

lincroft1710

Several decades ago a local agricultural machinery dealer had a brand new Thames Trader artic lowloader which had permanent trade plates, the vehicle never had a "normal" registration plate. I think one or two local garages at the time had.their breakdown trucks on permanent trade plates.

JustAnotherSaver

TooManyPoints said:

Jesus Christ *shakes head*

Depends I suppose. I'm not suggesting the police will be the remotest bit interested in the transgression. But that's not saying much. The police show a remarkable lack of interest in all manner of things and in any case I doubt the enforcement of the DPA is among the things they are responsible for.

But here we have an OP who has almost certainly used the MIB database to establish whether vehicles parked near his home are insured or not. It's against the DPA to do that and adequate warnings are provided if you attempt to do so. Effectively he's broken one law to establish if another has possibly been broken by somebody else (and as has been pointed out, that strategy is not entirely foolproof anyway). And he's done this because he does not like the idea of a neighbour owning a number of vehicles which he leaves in limited parking spaces. So the question really is, regardless of whether your transgression will be discovered,  is it OK to pick and choose which legislation you comply with and which you don't? Personally I think not but you're obviously not so fussy.

Well that's something we can certainly agree on then.

If the OP feels that some people are taking the piddle and wants to check to see if there's other goings on then big deal is my view. Does it break a law? Yeah I guess. Stupid law anyway but sure enough I suppose it is a law. I've checked plenty of cars off myself to see whether they're taxed, MOTd, insured.

What I am finding is that there is an increasing number of vehicles missing 1, 2 or all 3 of the above.

This year (and to tie in with our agreement) I reported one guy to the police for having no tax & no MOT but he did have insurance. The police tried telling me it wasn't their business and I should contact the DVLA.

I told them well that's a bit funny because it says online (government website too i think, though it's been a few months so I forget) that it IS YOUR concern, not DVLAs.

Police then back track and story short try fob me off, wanting evidence of it being on the public highway. I told them give me a second and I'll have that for you no bother.

Provided the evidence and they then had to load the reg on their ANPR system. It didn't get picked up so I asked them what the deal is - so maybe 2-3 months after the initial report, they finally pay the man a visit.

Yep I knew the guy and him being a <insert word that would get censored> went some way to me reporting him, as did the fact that if i decided to drive without any of the 3 requirements then i'd get pulled and lectured no problem so why should others get away with it when I have to pay up?

But they're really not interested too much in someone being without 1 of the 3 so they certainly wont be interested in someone checking any of the 3.

sheramber

the OP isn't really bothered that they aren't insured. he is annoyed because they are occupying parking spaces.

If it was not for the parking issue I would have just kept quiet.

maxmycardagain

Live and let live

its the ones ON the road uninsured we need to report