[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[Rendel Harris]

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Strangely, this exact problem with car insurance was not the first time this had happened to the couple with a Jaguar Land Rover vehicle.

While on holiday over the Christmas period in 2022, Adrian Flux said it could not renew a policy on Mrs Platt’s 2021 Range Rover Sport, which cost around £80,000 new.

So Mrs Platt was turned down for insurance on her previous Range Rover Sport but less than a year later bought a similar vehicle and she’s now surprised she’s been turned down for insurance on that. Mrs Platt is clearly not the sharpest utensil in the drawer and would not be even if the other utensils were all spoons. There’s something suspicious/unreported about her story anyway, I’ve never heard of a company issuing an insurance policy and then cancelling it without any reason after two months – surely once they’ve agreed to a policy they have to honour it for the term of the contract? Just out of curiosity (slow work day) I put my details into GoCompare with the same no claims and lack of offences that Mrs P claims and I was offered £2250 fully comp on a brand new £80,000 Defender in my inner-city London, relatively high crime location…

[HoarseMann]

Couple are forced to sell new

Couple are forced to sell new Land Rover at a £14,000 loss ONE MONTH after buying it after insurers cancelled their policy – and manufacturer won’t insure them either despite being ‘model drivers’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12983865/Couple-forced-sell-new-Land-Rover-14-000-loss-ONE-MONTH-insurance-policy-cancelled-manufacturer-wont-insure-despite-model-drivers.html

[ktache]

I’d love for them to put a
I’d love for them to put a number on that “inappropriate speed”

[David9694]

 

 

‘Ignored’ Exeter roadblocks protestors say ‘we’re not surprised’

But supporters of the LTN say the decision to continue with the trial was the right one

Local resident Lorna Devenish added: “We need to be asking ourselves what future we are wanting to build for our city. What do we want to prioritise? The safety of our children or a small inconvenience for people driving around the city? 

“Are we serious about beginning to decarbonise our lives, or will our resolve to do this fade at the first push back from car drivers?”

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/ignored-exeter-roadblocks-protestors-say-9055110

[chrisonabike]

Brilliant.  “My client was

Brilliant lawyering.  I can only imagine – “My client was certainly not driving dangerously at at least two points – when he started and when he stopped”.

You missed what he got and what he paid though: 90 mph, driving the wrong way on a dual carriageway, trying to ram police, no valid licence, no insurance.

Cost to him: 12 months jail sentence and also banned from driving for three years.

Obviously we won’t now see him on the roads for four years, honest.

[wtjs]

someone has latched onto the

someone has latched onto the freedoms granted to so-called Historic vehicles (no MOT, no ULEZ, £0 VED)

You’re living in the past! Up here in Go Ahead, Cut Red Tape Lancashire everybody is entitled to those freedoms if they have the sense to claim them. This is FN19 FSY

[David9694]

Great Shelford driver left

Great Shelford driver left woman seriously injured in crash – after speeding with blue lights flashing

The 24-year-old – who a judge said had an infatuation with emergency vehicles – tried telling police he was distracted by a fly in the car

https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/great-shelford-driver-left-woman-28495935

top marks to this telegraph pole 

[David9694]

at a guess, someone has

As you say, at a guess, someone has latched onto the freedoms granted to so-called Historic vehicles (no MOT, no ULEZ, £0 VED). 

A VINTAGE car more than four decades old has been pulled off the road for being in a poor condition after being spotted by police in a supermarket car park.

Essex Police officers were deployed across Colchester over the weekend as part of the force’s Operation Roadrunner. 

The scheme is designed to help reduce the number of casualties on the roads and act on concerns raised by councillors and residents.

During the patrols, officers used a range of tactics to ensure the laws of the roads were being adhered to by drivers, issuing six fixed penalty notices for a range of driving offences. 

Words of advice were also given to six other drivers over the course of the weekend operation.

While in Tesco, in Highwoods, the police also discovered a loud 45-year-old car which was being driving at inappropriate speeds.

After preventing the car from being driven out of the car park, officers established it was in an extremely poor condition, so decided to refer the find to the roads policing unit.

Following the arrival of the team, the vehicle was deemed unsafe and not roadworthy and can now no longer be driven on the road.

[Hirsute]

https://www.gazette-news.co

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24066905.colchester-police-prohibit-vintage-car-driven/

but they do a lot of blocking now, so you often only get 1 or 2 sentences of the article.

[Jogle]

Cheltenham man leads police
[b]Cheltenham man leads police on 141 mile car chase across England[/b]

Steven Young, defending, said: “None of the facts are in dispute. However, while it was a long pursuit there were large parts of the journey where he wasn’t driving dangerously.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-68067700

[brooksby]

I think technically a vintage

I think technically a vintage car has to have been built between 1919 and 1930 (pretty sure that Allegros weren’t being built then…).  Before 1919 are veteran or Edwardian.

A historic car generally has to have been built before 1983.

[Jogle]

David9694 wrote:

David9694 wrote:

Which local rag? 

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24066905.colchester-police-prohibit-vintage-car-driven/

[David9694]

Which local rag? 

Which local rag? 

[Jogle]

Hirsute wrote:

Hirsute wrote:

Local rag scraping the barrel to call an allegro a ‘vintage car’ !

A VINTAGE car more than four decades old has been pulled off the road for being in a poor condition after being spotted by police in a supermarket car park.

This is what happens when you allow vehicles on the road that don’t pay any tax and don’t need an MOT. It does need insurance and a numberplate, so we can’t quite play Cyclist Bingo

[Hirsute]

Local rag scraping the barrel

Local rag scraping the barrel to call an allegro a ‘vintage car’ !

A VINTAGE car more than four decades old has been pulled off the road for being in a poor condition after being spotted by police in a supermarket car park.

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