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ginguar
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PostPosted: 00:05 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Driving disqualification Reply with quote
Does anyone know where to find info on driving disqualifications? I have an employee who claims that this evening he has been disqualified from driving in the space of about half an hour. He was stopped for a bald tyre and then they checked his insurance and it had expired a month ago. He was given 9 points and lost his licence there and then. Fact or fiction?
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Shaun
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PostPosted: 00:11 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Fiction.

He'd have to wait for a summons in the post, then go to court and providing it didn't get adjourned then he would get his ban.

It takes a few months for the whole process, I know, I've been there.
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iCraig
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PostPosted: 00:16 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
I agree with Shaun, for that kind of offence its a summons.

They could take the vehicle off you though.
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PostPosted: 00:20 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Craig- wrote:
They could take the vehicle off you though.

And bloody should, especially off repeat offenders. Evil or Very Mad Anyone caught without insurance should have their vehicles scrapped.
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PostPosted: 00:53 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paivi wrote:
Craig- wrote:
They could take the vehicle off you though.

And bloody should, especially off repeat offenders. Evil or Very Mad Anyone caught without insurance should have their vehicles scrapped.


I'm not defending myself as I have insurance but what if it's a genuine accident?
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PostPosted: 01:01 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
I think they can impound an uninsured vehicle straight away?
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PostPosted: 01:09 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pug205er wrote:
I'm not defending myself as I have insurance but what if it's a genuine accident?

How could one 'accidentally' not have insurance? Mine is running out in a couple of days and the last two weeks, I've been bombarded by emails from my current insurance company, as well as letters, all reminding me to renew. I'm also bombarded by offers from the other companies I approached this time last year about an insurance, inviting me to get a quote with them.
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PostPosted: 01:20 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paivi wrote:
Anyone caught without insurance should have their vehicles scrapped.


I might renew mine this year then, haven't bothered so far.
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PostPosted: 01:58 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paivi wrote:
How could one 'accidentally' not have insurance?


Quite easily. 3 years ago, my bank cocked up my payment after I renewed my insurance with Bennett's. Their sole attempt to notify me of this (I later found out) was a phone call to my old mobile. That was it, no letters, no phone calls to my house number - nothing.

Come renewal time 10 months later, I contacted them and they said "Oh, your policy was cancelled last April, but we couldn't contact you."
Bunch of incompetent, swivel-eyed, duck-fornicators.
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PostPosted: 02:32 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paivi wrote:
Pug205er wrote:
I'm not defending myself as I have insurance but what if it's a genuine accident?

How could one 'accidentally' not have insurance? Mine is running out in a couple of days and the last two weeks, I've been bombarded by emails from my current insurance company, as well as letters, all reminding me to renew. I'm also bombarded by offers from the other companies I approached this time last year about an insurance, inviting me to get a quote with them.


in shauns case, he moved addresses, and his mum hadnt got round to forwarding his mail

or something like that
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PostPosted: 06:30 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can get revoked at the side of the road if he was in his first 2 years of riding/driving it could have happened.
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PostPosted: 09:31 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paivi wrote:
How could one 'accidentally' not have insurance?


It happens

CIS insurance about 2 years ago now had 10000s of people who said yes to renewals, BUT CIS didn't take any money due to a technicality, many people thought they were insured but were not , CIS after about 2 months admitted to its mistake.
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PostPosted: 10:47 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
chris-red wrote:
You can get revoked at the side of the road if he was in his first 2 years of riding/driving it could have happened.


No you can't.
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owdamer
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PostPosted: 12:35 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Paivi wrote:

How could one 'accidentally' not have insurance?


There was a local broker here who was selling motor insurance policies and pocketing the money himself. He just kept issuing cover notes and never got round to passing the information onto the actual insurance companies.
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PostPosted: 13:46 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Pug205er wrote:


I'm not defending myself as I have insurance but what if it's a genuine accident?


Vehicle is impounded and you can only get it back if you get it insured and pay the Impound and storage charge. If you don't collect it within a certain time it will be crushed.

The owner can also sighn it over to the police at the time of the incident if they wish to get it crushed thus( Wink ) avoiding the storage costs. Then it is crushed straight away.
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PostPosted: 15:09 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
bazza wrote:
Paivi wrote:
How could one 'accidentally' not have insurance?


Quite easily. 3 years ago, my bank cocked up my payment after I renewed my insurance with Bennett's. Their sole attempt to notify me of this (I later found out) was a phone call to my old mobile. That was it, no letters, no phone calls to my house number - nothing.

Come renewal time 10 months later, I contacted them and they said "Oh, your policy was cancelled last April, but we couldn't contact you."
Bunch of incompetent, swivel-eyed, duck-fornicators.


So you paid someone for an insurance policy and never bothered to ask where is the new policy/certificate of insurance etc. until 10 months later?
Scatter cash.
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PostPosted: 15:11 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Finglonga wrote:
Pug205er wrote:


I'm not defending myself as I have insurance but what if it's a genuine accident?


Vehicle is impounded and you can only get it back if you get it insured and pay the Impound and storage charge. If you don't collect it within a certain time it will be crushed.

The owner can also sighn it over to the police at the time of the incident if they wish to get it crushed thus( Wink ) avoiding the storage costs. Then it is crushed straight away.


Just as a matter of interest who then gets salvage?
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PostPosted: 15:42 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
bazza wrote:
Paivi wrote:
How could one 'accidentally' not have insurance?


Quite easily. 3 years ago, my bank cocked up my payment after I renewed my insurance with Bennett's. Their sole attempt to notify me of this (I later found out) was a phone call to my old mobile. That was it, no letters, no phone calls to my house number - nothing.

Come renewal time 10 months later, I contacted them and they said "Oh, your policy was cancelled last April, but we couldn't contact you."
Bunch of incompetent, swivel-eyed, duck-fornicators.


well I had heard they were crap, but i didnt realise they were that crap.
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PostPosted: 16:24 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
The whole crushing of cars because they're uninsured or untaxed really annoys me. What a waste!

It's also fairly open to abuse, there was a case in a classic car mag about a year ago where some guy had his 60s Bristol worth £30k crushed because he had gone on holiday and someone had reported it as dumped. They only made a few hundred of that particular model, now there's one less due to this sort of dumb 'we want to make a point' policy-making.
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They won't crush the vehicle if its worth something, they will sell it at auction.

Its a good method because before this came in uninsured drivers claiming they had insurance when they didn't were able to get back in there cars and drive off.

Theres too many cars on these roads anyway so scrapping a crappy car used by an uninsured driver is a good idea in my opinion.
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PostPosted: 20:16 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Walloper wrote:
So you paid someone for an insurance policy and never bothered to ask where is the new policy/certificate of insurance etc. until 10 months later?


I already had the policy and cover note - after which the cock-up occurred.

Next time, try reading the post instead of trying to bash out a "clever" reply, you cloth-eyed porridgewog. Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 21:33 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Finglonga wrote:

The owner can also sighn it over to the police at the time of the incident if they wish to get it crushed thus( Wink ) avoiding the storage costs. Then it is crushed straight away.




It does'nt matter if you sign it over or not, they store for a small period of time only, then they crush it anyway if you aint collected it, but you still avoid the storage cost's, it happened to me.
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PostPosted: 22:03 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Try the DVLA site

www.dvla.gov.uk/


But I thought you needed 12 points before a ban, or in certain circumstances more



As for the no insurance I had no insurance for a mouth or so Embarassed as I did get reminder but was busy with so much in the house that forgot about it sorry for being human I do forget sometimes as I am not prefect
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PostPosted: 22:18 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
Penalties page

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Where a person subject to the special rules accumulates six or more penalty points before the end of the two-year period (including any points acquired before passing the test) their licence will be revoked automatically. To regain the licence they must reapply for a provisional licence and may drive only as a learner until they pass a further driving test (see also 'Safety code for new drivers').


[Law RT(ND)A]

Note. This applies even if they pay for offences by fixed penalty. Drivers in the first group (UK, EU/EEA etc.) who already have a full licence for one type of vehicle are not affected by the special rules if they later pass a test to drive another type of vehicle.


Could this be what they mean.....
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PostPosted: 22:45 - 24 Jan 2008    Post subject: Reply with quote
bazza wrote:
Walloper wrote:
So you paid someone for an insurance policy and never bothered to ask where is the new policy/certificate of insurance etc. until 10 months later?


I already had the policy and cover note - after which the cock-up occurred.

Next time, try reading the post instead of trying to bash out a "clever" reply, you cloth-eyed porridgewog. Rolling Eyes


What a shame those drugs aren't working so well for you now. Crying or Very sad

I must have cloth eyes bugger lugs, cause I never saw mention in your post anything about receipt of documents. You wet and floppy, custard cream you.

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