The Road Maniac and Pathetic Punishment Thread

[Drago]

50 lashes would be too good for this one.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

50 lashes would be too good for this one.

hmm - "no fixed abode" and a BMW

wonder what he could have got the money from

clearly I have no evidence to suggest anything dodgy but........

 

[Bristolian]

As a bit of an aside, I have a question that has never occurred to me before. How does someone with no fixed abode register a vehicle with DVLA?

 

[Alex321]

As a bit of an aside, I have a question that has never occurred to me before. How does someone with no fixed abode register a vehicle with DVLA?

Response from the DVLA to a FOI request on this.

FOI FOI, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency 6 January 2014
Dear Ms Cleverley
When registering a vehicle, the law requires the keeper of the vehicle to provide an address at which he/she can be reached. This enables the police and other enforcement agencies to contact the keeper or his/her dependants in the event of a road traffic accident or in conjunction with a criminal offence. It also enables DVLA to ensure that vehicle excise duty is paid.
Whilst we fully appreciate the difficulties involved for individuals of no fixed abode in providing an address, DVLA will accept care of addresses. The keeper with approval is able to use a care of address, such as, solicitor, doctor, family or friends to use as a drop off address and the keeper of a vehicle can be traced via these addresses.'
Trust this covers your further query.

 

[grldtnr]

Response from the DVLA to a FOI request on this.

Entirely a leap of faith that the DVLA and authorities will be able to contact someone with C/O address, no fixed abode.
Do they honestly think that any request by authorities to accede to information requests from some such person to be successful?
No disrespect to the traveling community, but that's not very likely is it , by and large that's the very reason why they are travellers.
Although that's not to say not all disobey the law of the land, some follow their own laws, which are far stricter than the governments.

 

[Drago]

As a bit of an aside, I have a question that has never occurred to me before. How does someone with no fixed abode register a vehicle with DVLA?

They use fake addresses (harder now), find a stooge willing to use their address, or mostly don't bother registering the vehicle at all,