Need Help with Letter (MOT)
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Hi, I've posted here before regarding my accident in which my car was a right off and also the fact that I had missed the MOT a month earlier! Doh!
Anyway the lady at the police station reported me for not having an MOT certificate, I anxiously waited for a letter through the post and it came. Below is the main part of the letter.
*I have given full consideration to all the circumstances and I have decided that, provided you can produce evidence that the vehicle now has a current test certificate, no further action will be taken against you.*
They will let me off if I can produce a MOT certificate but wait a minute! The car is written off, how is it possible for me to produce a current MOT certificate if I have no car!
Anyway I headed to the police station and showed them the letter. They told me to inform the DVLA, but insurance company have already done so. She then told me to write a letter to the Central Processing Unit about the car being written off!
What will happen to me now once I have written a letter, telling them that the car is no more?
This is really doing my head in!
Thanks in advance.
Anyway the lady at the police station reported me for not having an MOT certificate, I anxiously waited for a letter through the post and it came. Below is the main part of the letter.
*I have given full consideration to all the circumstances and I have decided that, provided you can produce evidence that the vehicle now has a current test certificate, no further action will be taken against you.*
They will let me off if I can produce a MOT certificate but wait a minute! The car is written off, how is it possible for me to produce a current MOT certificate if I have no car!
Anyway I headed to the police station and showed them the letter. They told me to inform the DVLA, but insurance company have already done so. She then told me to write a letter to the Central Processing Unit about the car being written off!
What will happen to me now once I have written a letter, telling them that the car is no more?
This is really doing my head in!
Thanks in advance.
The question no doubt the authorities are interested in is that either a vehicle has a Test certificate or that it is no longer and therefore no problem in respect of roadworthyness.
Your position unfortunately is not clear as had you been able to produce a current ticket then presumably no action would have been taken. In your letter if you have pointed out that the vehicle is no longer on the road as a write off then they may take the same course of action and NFA.
Alternatively they may process the case through to Court and summons you for No MOT and you will become aware of this in receipt of a summons in the post.
It is a relatively minor offence but can carry a disqualification.
yes it can....
DVD
Your position unfortunately is not clear as had you been able to produce a current ticket then presumably no action would have been taken. In your letter if you have pointed out that the vehicle is no longer on the road as a write off then they may take the same course of action and NFA.
Alternatively they may process the case through to Court and summons you for No MOT and you will become aware of this in receipt of a summons in the post.
It is a relatively minor offence but can carry a disqualification.
yes it can....
DVD
Dwight VanDriver said:I believe that any offence can carry a driving ban.
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It is a relatively minor offence but can carry a disqualification.
yes it can....
DVD
Section 146 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 enables the court to impose a driving disqualification on any person convicted of an offence after 31st December 1997. It states:-
146 (1) The court by or before which a person is convicted of an offence committed after 31st December 1997 may, instead of or in addition to dealing with him in any other way, order him to be disqualified, for such period as it thinks fit, from holding or obtaining a driving licence.
Streaky
I'm just guessing here but the fact they are willing to let you off and treat it as an oversite will still stand once you have explained the car is no more.
It seems they are only really interested in real criminals and hence don't really want a fuss over an MOT.
Write to them I'm sure you'll be fine.
It seems they are only really interested in real criminals and hence don't really want a fuss over an MOT.
Write to them I'm sure you'll be fine.
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