Will the DVLA give me the details of another driver?

haaammit · 30 Aug 2023 at 17:44

Bit of an of an odd one. Was waiting in line to fill with fuel earlier, noticed the person at the pump in front of me drop a bit of paper. Didn't give it any thought. When they left, I pulled up to the pump, and then noticed the bit of paper that had been dropped was a photograph (think passport size), The vehicle had long gone by that point. In hindsight I could have handed to the cashier, but I was doing pay at pump and didn't think of that until later.

I have the reg of the vehicle that dropped the picture. Would the DVLA give me details of the driver so I can send this photo back to them. The picture looks like it could be of this person's mother or similar, so could be very sentimental.

Failing that, any other ideas how to get the photo back to this person? Wasn't sure if this belongs in Motors or GD tbh.

TIA

omnomnom · 30 Aug 2023 at 17:45

No.

As for getting the photo back, pop it on facebook.

Dave85 · 30 Aug 2023 at 17:46

If they wont I wonder if the police would help seeing as you had the reg

new boy · 30 Aug 2023 at 19:24

Dave85 said:
If they wont I wonder if the police would help seeing as you had the reg

4 days ago we had a shoplifter steal over a hundred quid worth of stock and when we stopped them told us to **** off or he will stab us whilst putting his hand in his pocket indicating he had a weapon on them. We are still waiting for the police to turn up and I doubt they will.

Can't see them helping with the photograph to be honest.

uber soldat · 30 Aug 2023 at 19:30

new boy said:
4 days ago we had a shoplifter steal over a hundred quid worth of stock and when we stopped them told us to **** off or he will stab us whilst putting his hand in his pocket indicating he had a weapon on them. We are still waiting for the police to turn up and I doubt they will.

Can't see them helping with the photograph to be honest.

Tell them the woman in the picture was mean to someone on Twitter, call it a hate crime while you do it, and they'll throw more resources at it than a murder inquiry.

tom_e · 30 Aug 2023 at 19:31

I'd either post in the local Facebook groups as above or drop it back off at the petrol station. Can't see the DVLA or police being any help

BUDFORCE · 30 Aug 2023 at 19:32

Like all the gyp...... I mean our friends from the travelling community who don't pay for petrol.

They fill up then go say they forgot to bring any money. It's technically not a criminal offence if they don't drive off, they have to fill out a form and that does get passed to an agency who surprise surprise don't do anything, so they literally just do it over and over.

Diddums · 30 Aug 2023 at 19:45

The photo:

Semple · 30 Aug 2023 at 20:05

new boy said:
4 days ago we had a shoplifter steal over a hundred quid worth of stock and when we stopped them told us to **** off or he will stab us whilst putting his hand in his pocket indicating he had a weapon on them. We are still waiting for the police to turn up and I doubt they will.

Can't see them helping with the photograph to be honest.

Did you not know the law had changed regarding the amount that had to be stolen before the police would prosecute? I believe it's £200, so anything under that and the police just aren't interested. Absolutely stupid to make it known that way so any shoplifter knows to steal under 200 quid and they can get away with it.

Thekwango · 31 Aug 2023 at 00:05

BUDFORCE said:
Like all the gyp...... I mean our friends from the travelling community who don't pay for petrol.

They fill up then go say they forgot to bring any money. It's technically not a criminal offence if they don't drive off, they have to fill out a form and that does get passed to an agency who surprise surprise don't do anything, so they literally just do it over and over.

But no one drove off without paying for fuel?! Unless I’m missing something in the op.

Vexr · 31 Aug 2023 at 04:56

So in this thread your responders say nope, you have no recourse identifying the owner of the vehicle.

But on this thread, a contributor says coughing up ~£2 or whatever, and you can.

Car parked in my allocated space

Forget to mention i have done that. I don't think the cars moved at all for weeks/months. Wheel dollies and push it into another neighbours spot before the paper trail points to you.

forums.overclockers.co.uk

Honestly, if it wasn't for the one or two genuine, knowledgeable guys who have put me right, I'd suspect this entire message board is AI generated / dubiously biased political nonsense outside of the hardware subsections.

Rroff · 31 Aug 2023 at 07:35

Vexr said:
So in this thread your responders say nope, you have no recourse identifying the owner of the vehicle.

But on this thread, a contributor says coughing up ~£2 or whatever, and you can.

Car parked in my allocated space

Forget to mention i have done that. I don't think the cars moved at all for weeks/months. Wheel dollies and push it into another neighbours spot before the paper trail points to you.

forums.overclockers.co.uk

Honestly, if it wasn't for the one or two genuine, knowledgeable guys who have put me right, I'd suspect this entire message board is AI generated / dubiously biased political nonsense outside of the hardware subsections.

Both are true, kind of, you need reasonable cause to request details of the registered keeper of another vehicle and nominally that needs to be backed up with evidence such as a crime reference number. A situation like this isn't really covered by the DVLA and would be on a case by case basis - probably you'd be asked to log it with the police as a non-emergency case or the garage, etc.

tom_e · 31 Aug 2023 at 07:43

Vexr said:
So in this thread your responders say nope, you have no recourse identifying the owner of the vehicle.

But on this thread, a contributor says coughing up ~£2 or whatever, and you can.

Car parked in my allocated space

Forget to mention i have done that. I don't think the cars moved at all for weeks/months. Wheel dollies and push it into another neighbours spot before the paper trail points to you.

forums.overclockers.co.uk

Honestly, if it wasn't for the one or two genuine, knowledgeable guys who have put me right, I'd suspect this entire message board is AI generated / dubiously biased political nonsense outside of the hardware subsections.

Like Rroff says, two totally different situations which is why the answer is different.

The_Arbiter · 31 Aug 2023 at 09:24

I tend to leave things where they are due to how uncaring/ lack of time/lack of money many people, businesses or services are/have. If it were important then the person will have gone back already to find it's gone and the cashier doesn't know anything.

Facebook group hunting may be your best bet, but informing the garage still you have it.