Untaxed Clamped car.

[DulwichFox]

Someone has left an Untaxed car outside my house which has now been clamped.

Parking is bad enough without Imobilized vehicles taking up parking spaces.

The DVLA now have these Vans which have a camera on each of the corners of it's roof.

I have seen them on a few occassions in my road, so I assume they are driving around the area

and must be catching lots of other Untaxed Vehicles.

I have just recieved my Car Tax Renewal for ?215.00 which I will pay at the end of the Month.

The car was not there yesterday and not regularly parked there. Well I don't recognise it.

If the car ha been stolen I feel it might be there for weeks...

Surely the DVLA know the address of the registered owner and should pay them a visit.

Perhaps they will.

[Grotty]

we've had 2 untaxed vehicles on our road clamped and then towed away (within 2 days of clamping)in the last month alone!

[ratty]

Yep - they usually tow them quite quickly afterwards!

[kford]

I think the usual practise is for the DVLA to send a fine to the Registered Keeper a couple of weeks after the tax disc runs out. If this isn't paid, the van pays a visit. If the fine still isn't paid, the car is taken away and sold or crushed.

[Damian H]

Personally I think the crushing of perfectly good cars as some sort of deterrent is little short of criminal. To say the least it is not exactly green apart from anything else.

THere must be other ways.

[kford]

I think they just crush the bangers, which have to be recycled by law (good parts salvaged; fluids drained; plastics removed and turned into insulation/soundproofing on new cars; metal sent for smelting). The decent cars are auctioned off.

Untaxed cars are usually uninsured, un-MoTd or unregistered - these are the cars more likely than any other to be involved in accidents or crime.

So it's draconian, but a Good Thing.

[DulwichFox]

Car now Taxed.. Clamp was removed before Tax disc displayed... so probably genuine case of Tax in Post.

[kford]

If the tax was in the post, it would not have been flagged by the van. The van has ANPR linked to the non-payers on the DVLA database.