My cars crushed but how do i prove it?

Question

About a year ago my car broke down, been a skint student i just left it parked up a short work from my house. A week or two later i received a parking ticket in the post so went round to find my car which was gone. I recived 6 more parking tickets through the post and asumed my car had been towed away by the council i paid the tickets and assumed they would send a letter about getting my car back which they didnt. It was a crap car so i wasnt that bothered and left it. When my tax ran out however i got a letter asking me to renew it or get fined. I wasn't sure what to do so i decleared it as SORN now its up for renew how do i tell them my cars dead????????? HELP

Answer 1

Never assume it is dead, and never assume it has been towed away by the council.

By law, the police or the council would require to put a notice on the car and have it there for 21 days before they can legally impound it, unless it is parked in a dangerous manner in which case it would be towed automatically.

After it's been lifted the registered keeper and registered owner would be contacted rearding the uplift, and advised of any charges due for impound and return.

Another mistake was paying for the parking tickets which would identify where and when the offence took place. You are technically accepting liability.

Had you reported it missing presumed stolen to the police at the time, they would have been able to do the necessary enquiries as to whether it had been imponded or not. I think it is safe to assume that the car has been stolen, and is still being used one way or the other.

You need to contact the police, and explain the circumstances, but as you are still recorded with the DVLA that you are the reistered owner/keeper, you will be held liable for any road tax and resultant fines due if you declare it SORN and it is not.......

The minute it is caught on the road you will get a fine in the post from DVLA.

Contact the Police, now.

Answer 2

Bloody Hell! Has your brain always been this addled? Going on a year and you still haven't figured this out?

Time for a wakeup, mate! When parking tickets continued to come through, it meant that someone was driving the car and parking it illegally! In other words, it was stolen!

I submit that you are genuinely too stupid to be allowed to operate a motor vehicle on public roads and should surrender your driving license. You compounded the issue by declaring the vehicle SORN when in fact it was not. Whatever possessed you to that? If -- no, make that WHEN -- the vehicle is spotted on the road, YOU will be hit with the fines for an improper SORN declaration. Hope you've got loads of spare cash for that!

It you're too thick to recognise that a vehicle has been stolen, maybe the DVLA will find a soft spot in their hearts to let you off the hook. You'll certainly provide the office staff with an amusing story for years to come.

I'd say that you're thicker than two short planks, but that would be an insult to hard-working planks everywhere.

Answer 3

You do not even know that it was "crushed", you are making an assumption. It could have been stolen, and someone is drving it around and getting parking tickets. What you should have done is reported it stolen from the first day you found it gone; if it had been towed then they would have been able to tell you where it was. You are going happily along assuming it was towed when you do not know that either. You have made two assumptions, both of which could be false: (1) that it was towed, and (2) that it was crushed. You cannot verify either one of these assumptions.

Face it, you have no idea what happened to your car.

Answer 4

you will have to contact the dvla and tell them what happened because you have no idea who,if indeed anyone has your car and you could be liable for all sorts,,you need to get your name disassociated with the vehicle,,it could have been involved in a crime,,while parked up on your drive while under a 'sorn'? the car needs to be tracked down and if you didn't move it and it hasn't been registered by another party it is likely to have been illegally crushed and not declared by the scrap merchants,,this itself is illegal,you may have to report it as stolen to admonish yourself from guilt but as the red tape is so long all you can do is tell them what happened,don't panic,,it may cost you in the long run but better that that something worse later,if someone gets caught using it and you have said it is not in use and you have it,,that IS illegal,,do it now.

Answer 5

You need to report to DMV that you no longer have the car. And to prove when you last had the car you should try and find the towing company that took the car and get records of that. Also records of your parking tickets should help you find where the car went to... Good Luck!

Answer 6

when you found the car gone did you report it to the police?? were all The parking tickets from the same location? You may need all this information to prove you no longer have and drive the car

Answer 7

Well, you need to call the DMV, or go to their website - and fill out a form called "lost or stolen plate" and get the plate cancelled on the car. It's really not about the car itself, but about the plate.

Answer 8

Do you always pay for parking tickets that you haven't accrued yourself? If so, I can send you some.

You're a numpty...and a bone-idle numpty at that. Typical student.

Answer 9

Bring the title into the dmv and tell them it has been junked.

Answer 10

When it got crushed, i think they should have given you some sort of paperwork to verify that this had happened.