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Re: Expired MOT and Traffic Offence Report
The police need to recover your details from DVLA so it takes a while. Years ago when I worked in that area, a large percentage were not followed through as they had no capacity to process all fines, but that could have changed.
In most countries the tax, insurance and MOT, if needed, are all joined up. We are moving that way, but we have no national MOT testing system, and garages can be as 'nice' as they want.
The ANPR is looking for the chance to inspect you, so that they can check what is in your car as well as your details. They can trap felons and illegal immigrants in this way, as well as those who NEVER buy insurance and tax and would scream away if they saw a policeman standing next to them. The ANPR traps are a bit more sophisticated and have people placed to stop you travelling further, like ANPR on one side of a bridge and the pick up on the other side.
I would sooner be fined for not having the MOT than be killed by somebody without insurance. However, I would be annoyed.
OH was fined last week for parking in Westminster with foreign Blue Badge. It would appear you can't park except in Blue Disabled Parking spaces, but of course it is not advertised except on their Web site so fat chance for foreign disabled people knowing that Westminster and Chelsea have invented their own rules.
The police need to recover your details from DVLA so it takes a while. Years ago when I worked in that area, a large percentage were not followed through as they had no capacity to process all fines, but that could have changed.
In most countries the tax, insurance and MOT, if needed, are all joined up. We are moving that way, but we have no national MOT testing system, and garages can be as 'nice' as they want.
The ANPR is looking for the chance to inspect you, so that they can check what is in your car as well as your details. They can trap felons and illegal immigrants in this way, as well as those who NEVER buy insurance and tax and would scream away if they saw a policeman standing next to them. The ANPR traps are a bit more sophisticated and have people placed to stop you travelling further, like ANPR on one side of a bridge and the pick up on the other side.
I would sooner be fined for not having the MOT than be killed by somebody without insurance. However, I would be annoyed.
OH was fined last week for parking in Westminster with foreign Blue Badge. It would appear you can't park except in Blue Disabled Parking spaces, but of course it is not advertised except on their Web site so fat chance for foreign disabled people knowing that Westminster and Chelsea have invented their own rules.
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