Ignore and forget?
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Don
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The guy can report you for driving agressively, then the police can apply a note to your registration. If reported again, or seen driving dangerously, they take your car and impound it!
Its a total joke of a law, and open to abuse from people with grudges.
Its a total joke of a law, and open to abuse from people with grudges.
If anything I'd have been tempted to report him to the police, sounds like you did nothing wrong and he sounds mentally unstable. If he keeps doing things like that he'll wind up annoying someone who wont react as well as you did.
If the police get involved tell the police you had to over take him because he was driving that slow below 30MPH. Say approx 20MPH the last time you checked your speed so you passed him at 30MPH, turn the tables round on him.
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I know, its crazy, but true!
I was watching it on RoadWars type program the other day.
Chap had been reported as driving eratically in a car park (wheelspinning, handbrake turns and the like) by a member of the public.
"Another member" of the public reported similar incident, and the police then went out to track him down on the brighton sea-front, and took his car away.
The "member of the public" arrived at the scene as the car was being taken away, (of course, he just happened to be passing) and thanked the police officers for removing the chap from the roads.
Same in Blackpool, every road there is 30.
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http://www.kent.police.uk/Your Area/South Kent/South_Kent_news/Nuisance_vehicle_sei.html
Link to prove this seizure of vehicles does happen with only public reports as evidence!
Section 59 is the law.
http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/1399.html
Section 59:
(1) Where a constable in uniform has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle is being used on any occasion in a manner which—
(a) contravenes section 3 or 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) (careless and inconsiderate driving and prohibition of off-road driving), and
(b) is causing, or is likely to cause, alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public,
he shall have the powers set out in subsection (3).
(2) A constable in uniform shall also have the powers set out in subsection (3) where he has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle has been used on any occasion in a manner falling within subsection (1).
(3) Those powers are—
(a) power, if the motor vehicle is moving, to order the person driving it to stop the vehicle;
(b) power to seize and remove the motor vehicle;
(c) power, for the purposes of exercising a power falling within paragraph (a) or (b), to enter any premises on which he has reasonable grounds for believing the motor vehicle to be;
(d) power to use reasonable force, if necessary, in the exercise of any power conferred by any of paragraphs to (a) to (c).
(4) A constable shall not seize a motor vehicle in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section unless—
(a) he has warned the person appearing to him to be the person whose use falls within subsection (1) that he will seize it, if that use continues or is repeated; and
(b) it appears to him that the use has continued or been repeated after the the warning.
(5) Subsection (4) does not require a warning to be given by a constable on any occasion on which he would otherwise have the power to seize a motor vehicle under this section if—
(a) the circumstances make it impracticable for him to give the warning;
(b) the constable has already on that occasion given a warning under that subsection in respect of any use of that motor vehicle or of another motor vehicle by that person or any other person;
(c) the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that such a warning has been given on that occasion otherwise than by him; or
(d) the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that the person whose use of that motor vehicle on that occasion would justify the seizure is a person to whom a warning under that subsection has been given (whether or not by that constable or in respect the same vehicle or the same or a similar use) on a previous occasion in the previous twelve months.
(6) A person who fails to comply with an order under subsection (3)(a) is guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(7) Subsection (3)(c) does not authorise entry into a private dwelling house.
(8) The powers conferred on a constable by this section shall be exercisable only at a time when regulations under section 60 are in force.
(9) In this section—
*
“driving” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52);
*
“motor vehicle” means any mechanically propelled vehicle, whether or not it is intended or adapted for use on roads; and
*
“private dwelling house” does not include any garage or other structure occupied with the dwelling house, or any land appurtenant to the dwelling house.
Link to prove this seizure of vehicles does happen with only public reports as evidence!
Section 59 is the law.
http://www.derbyshire.police.uk/news/1399.html
Section 59:
(1) Where a constable in uniform has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle is being used on any occasion in a manner which—
(a) contravenes section 3 or 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52) (careless and inconsiderate driving and prohibition of off-road driving), and
(b) is causing, or is likely to cause, alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public,
he shall have the powers set out in subsection (3).
(2) A constable in uniform shall also have the powers set out in subsection (3) where he has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle has been used on any occasion in a manner falling within subsection (1).
(3) Those powers are—
(a) power, if the motor vehicle is moving, to order the person driving it to stop the vehicle;
(b) power to seize and remove the motor vehicle;
(c) power, for the purposes of exercising a power falling within paragraph (a) or (b), to enter any premises on which he has reasonable grounds for believing the motor vehicle to be;
(d) power to use reasonable force, if necessary, in the exercise of any power conferred by any of paragraphs to (a) to (c).
(4) A constable shall not seize a motor vehicle in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section unless—
(a) he has warned the person appearing to him to be the person whose use falls within subsection (1) that he will seize it, if that use continues or is repeated; and
(b) it appears to him that the use has continued or been repeated after the the warning.
(5) Subsection (4) does not require a warning to be given by a constable on any occasion on which he would otherwise have the power to seize a motor vehicle under this section if—
(a) the circumstances make it impracticable for him to give the warning;
(b) the constable has already on that occasion given a warning under that subsection in respect of any use of that motor vehicle or of another motor vehicle by that person or any other person;
(c) the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that such a warning has been given on that occasion otherwise than by him; or
(d) the constable has reasonable grounds for believing that the person whose use of that motor vehicle on that occasion would justify the seizure is a person to whom a warning under that subsection has been given (whether or not by that constable or in respect the same vehicle or the same or a similar use) on a previous occasion in the previous twelve months.
(6) A person who fails to comply with an order under subsection (3)(a) is guilty of an offence and shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(7) Subsection (3)(c) does not authorise entry into a private dwelling house.
(8) The powers conferred on a constable by this section shall be exercisable only at a time when regulations under section 60 are in force.
(9) In this section—
*
“driving” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52);
*
“motor vehicle” means any mechanically propelled vehicle, whether or not it is intended or adapted for use on roads; and
*
“private dwelling house” does not include any garage or other structure occupied with the dwelling house, or any land appurtenant to the dwelling house.
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another quick question for you guys
theres a car parked localy to me. no owner know, not taxed for last 4 years, not moved in that long either. parked on road
but it's a classic beetle. is there any way to find out the owner and or maybe get my mits on it if he doesn't want it anymore? can the police help?
theres a car parked localy to me. no owner know, not taxed for last 4 years, not moved in that long either. parked on road
but it's a classic beetle. is there any way to find out the owner and or maybe get my mits on it if he doesn't want it anymore? can the police help?
The police will get it removed as an untaxed vehicle, you pushing it into your driveway wont mean you own it. The police will probably track the owner but not for your benefit.