Car compounded by police?

Question

Here i am again thanks for your answers the ones that were useful were good the others made me laugh as some people are just like i sed.. brain dead. Anyway the thing is i went to the police station with my neighbour he was fully comp but un be known to him.. cos it didnt actually state on his insurance policy that he could drive other cars third party he wasnt infact insured. I live away from my home town due to my job so the amount of people i can ask are limited as i am new here. but the people i do know whom i have asked are all insured fully comp but none of their insurances cover them to drive any other car. So it will mean asking someone from home to drive 120 miles to do it.. when the law says im legal anyway. I asked the police to check with dvla that i had a licence but they said "sorry we dont deal direct with them" (only wen it suits to their own advantage)...That is law and justice for u. I want to know if the law accepts im legal then y r the police allowed to do this

I myself have had a licence for 17 years and couldnt believe that fully comp didnt cover you...third party. But eh yu learn something new everyday eh? At the end of the day why do the police have the right to break A LAW THAT SAYS I CAN DRIVE while waiting on my licence.

yes my car was inpounded into a compound i believe or something like that

Answer 1

This seems EXTREMELY ODD - in 24 years of driving, I have not seen *ONE* full comp policy which doesn't allow the driving of another car third party.

It is possible such policies do exist, just I suspect they are a TINY minority.

Certainly the "default" policy with Direct Line, Liverpool Victoria, Norwich Union etc ALL have third party driving permitted even on the standard TPF&T policy.

True, many people are unaware of it.

In the meantime, if you feel that police are behaving unreasonably, write to the ACC (Assistant chief constable), don't write the CC himself - handled by a minion - BUT a letter to the ACC will usually be read by the fellow himself. IF you are making a fair point, he may well agree to assist.

May I suggest if you DO write to him, you treat him to a few paragraph breaks and spell checker - then he might find it easier to read rather than one massive block of text.

Mark

Answer 2

What ever you do I would hurry up, cars seized by the police for no insurance are only kept for a week then the law gives the police the power to destroy the car.

Because of the amount of false claims now a lot of insurance companies dont give fully comp drivers 3rd party cover on others cars as a matter of course, you would need to ask for it when you take the policy out.

At the end of the day like it or not it is YOUR responsibility to have your driving documents with you, the reason they require the licence when you get your car back is so they can check the picture.

I wonder if you would feel so hard done by if someone you cared for was killed by one of the thousands of uninsured drivers or drivers without the correct licence, and I guarantee that there would be claims against the police if they found out that the car was given back to one of these drivers because they didnt check the documents were in order.

At the end of the day, by the police seizing uninsured vehicles the amount of them will reduce and this will ultimatley reduce the cost of insurance for those that bother to pay it.

Answer 3

In the US Insurance usually follows the car, not the driver. That means if you have insurance on the car, it covers anyone you allow to drive the car. If the car is not insured, no one is insured to drive the car.

Was your car impounded, I've never heard on 'compounded'.

Answer 4

Get one of them to phone up their insurance company and add your car to their policy. Or phone yours and add a Named driver. Police do a P.N.C check on your car and it tells them your the owner and the car is taxed etc. You only need to produce proof of I.D to collect your car. Think you met a jobsworth" Ask to speak to Station superintendent as you are unhappy with the service you received. By law he has to listen to your grievance. You may be getting confused as they simply might want you to produce your documents at police station within 14 days. This should have nothing to do with you being able to collect your car. You have a good case of being able to sue them. Keep a record of all visits and get badge numbers. Regards..

Answer 5

it actual relies upon on why they impounded the vehicle. if it replaced into because to procure arrested for a D.U.I. or no D.L. or no insurance or no tags.. than you basically ought to bypass to the position ever the vehicle replaced into towed with a valid motive force data of insurance and good tags. you need to bypass to the police station and seek for suggestion from with them in order to inform the shop that they could launch the vehicle to you. If it replaced into for drugs then they received't aid you've the vehicle decrease back until eventually after your trial in the experience that they even do aid you've it decrease back. also ought to pay the tow invoice and storage costs for besides the indisputable fact that lengthy your motor vehicle is there they could get extremely severe priced. so get the vehicle out once you may because daily it sits there it costs you extra to get it out. right here they charge about $60 an afternoon for storage and the tow invoice is about $50 in line with hook up and $3 a mile.

Answer 6

I would get your family member to come and do it, pay them for their gas & time, and get your car. Otherwise you are just going to be without your car that much longer.
The police evidently are not seeing the proof that they REQUIRE to release your car. Since they are now responsible for your car, they cannot release it to you until they are satisfied that YOU will be responsible for your car. If they released the car, and then something happened, they would still be considered responsible for the car, and they don't want to pay any damages for negligence, or the actual damage that might occurr if you were to drive the vehicle uninsured.

Answer 7

I think you have to have insurance on your car before it can be taken out of the pound. That's what I had to get before I could get it out and my friend was allowed to drive, because my license was suspended at the time.

Answer 8

You're an idiot and next time someone steals your car I hope they completely trash it instead of just getting it impounded. And by the way, looking at your atrocious spelling, you have no right to call anyone else a di*khead or brain dead.

Answer 9

do try another family member with fully comp otherwise wave
good bye to your car good luck , remember the law is an ***