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Car flipped itself and hit a
Car flipped itself and hit a passing pedestrian?
All these reports include the standard statement about police asking for witnesses etc.- except you know that the last thing they want is convincing evidence, such as video. What the police want is their favourite: insufficient evidence, so they can move straight to ‘medical incident’, ‘no charges’ and back to the station
I’ve never had a problem with
I’ve never had a problem with cotton duck
Wears out too quickly and is obsolete compared to Cordura, etc. I am one of the old knackers for whom cotton duck is supposed to be essential and I’ve been using nylon since the 70s
but airport baggage handlers!
but airport baggage handlers!
SAS just smashed up my daughter’s bike going out to Bodo in Norway. Big dent from a pointed object on the seat tube and completely bent my aged, but very strong, Blackburn rack. However, she has triumphed over them and is seeing good weather, mountains and pilot whales in the Lofotens. Unfortunately, they can have another go on the way back.
I regularly write the same
I regularly write the same recommendation- especially now that Carradice has now branched into proper nylon, as opposed to almost-useless ‘cotton-duck’
OTOH if you can just give the
OTOH if you can just give the DVLA the finger (and possibly get “red diesel” prices / other exemptions) you save a bit of money
The rear view of that secondhand Hunt Forest Gator shows where the plate is supposed to be, not hidden away underneath on the chassis. The other advantages for Lancashire owners are the immunity from numberplate and seatbelt laws and exemption (legitimate or not) from MOT
was hoping it might come in a
was hoping it might come in a bit cheaper than this
But you get 10 years VED-free motoring courtesy of DVLA and Lancashire Constabulary!
You will see on the first
You will see on the first photo an unused seatbelt behind the female passenger, and it was Lancashire Constabulary who issued the FPN to Rishi Sunak for failing to wear a seatbelt on the evidence of an Instagram post.It was taxed for its first
it looks to me like it wouldn’t need tax or MOT if it was only used for short distances on the road
It was taxed for its first year and was therefore allocated a tax band. As Rendel keeps saying, it’s the DVLA which decrees whether they have to pay real money, but they still have to renew every year. It would be a DVLA failure if they then recorded VED as ‘missing’ for 10 years. That’s not impossible, as DVLA is pretty hopeless. I’m still going for evasion! We’ll see if my MP manages to get anything out of them, or if they hide behind the usual GDPR to cover up. It’s regularly travelling at least 4 miles into Garstang and back, and likely further- I have several photos going back to 21 but previously all of the front. There’s no front plate and they’ve carefully hidden the rear plate. It’s road-homologated and may well be entitled to a reduced rate, but not a zero rate! The trouble is that it’s the Wild West up here for traffic law- there are numerous massive horsepower tractors and trailers with no plates at all, and they would crush a big Transit no bother, never mind a cyclist, and would get away with saying they thought it was a bag of potatoes
Illegal electric motorbikes
Illegal electric motorbikes and scooters = police
£1-2000 of tax evasion over 10 years = DVLAThe reasons I think this is a
The reasons I think this is a record are the behaviour in trying to hide the reg., me seeing the vehicle several times on public roads over the years and the fact that it was allocated a taxation category when it was new. Never had an MOT, but it might be exempt- it’s very difficult to find that out. It’s going in my letter to my MP about the numerous failings of DVLA, unless somebody on here comes up with a good excuse for the driverAnd this is probably it, at
And this is probably it, at the first sighting. There have been several since. There’s no front plate
Well, hands up who thinks
Well, hands up who thinks this is a problem for somebody? It’s John Deere Cross-Over Utility vehicle PO64 AUR. The rear plate is determinedly obscured, but I’ve got it. Could it be a record?
That’s not quite the version
That’s not quite the version of The New ‘It Wasn’t My Fault!’ Dodge I had in mind, but it will do for a start. The mainstream version will be ‘It wasn’t my fault that I crashed into that school and killed chidren with my GrossPanzer’
Customers described their
Customers described their cars suddenly accelerating or braking hard. Some escaped with a scare; others ended up in ditches, crashing into walls or colliding with oncoming vehicles
Looks like a a pre-emptive attempt at a new dodge, for when the present ‘medical incident but I’m completely well now’ stops workingBus crashes into lamppost in
Bus crashes into lamppost in London Road, West Kingsdown
Must have been the new ‘fave’ excuse: a medical incident which has now resolved.
