> The major point that I made is, we don't know what REALLY happened
> and, as somebody else pointed out, it is reasonably probable in such
> cases that the vehicle is an unregistered, un-safety-checked=20
> (here termed Warrant of Fitness) uninsured death trap.

And in the UK it is MOT (Which I believe stands for Ministry of
Transport check).

> Crushing such MAY be a proportionate response. But a RR Silver Shadow
> could under unusual [tm] situations fall into the same category -
> would it too be crushed? Should it be? Is the financial penalty
> applied meant to be linear or proportionate or ... ?

I believe a Rolls Royce has been crushed under this law. See
http://www.motoring.co.uk/car-news/bmw-s-porsches-and-bentleys-are-crush
ed_13467


The original case that I quoted that started this furore had the driver
as unlicensed, because he didn't resit his test after his ban expired,
he was also uninsured, and I cannot recall if his vehicle had a current
MOT.

But the nub of all this is that all three of the requirements for the
car (insurance, MOT and Road Tax status - not mentioned above) are
notified to the relevant government department that deals with Road Tax.
Nowadays when I take my car for an MOT the garage has a computer link to
notify that a fresh MOT has been issued. When I renew my insurance that
is also notified.=20

Then when I go to renew the Road Tax for the car, the MOT and insurance
are checked to see that they are current, and only then will the Road
Tax payment be accepted, and the appropriate tax disk for the vehicle
issued.

So when passing an NPR camera if any of these 3 items have expired the
vehicle gets flagged up and pulled over. But one of the other traps to
this is that vehicles that are missing any of these 3 items are also
highly likely to be involved in other forms of crime. In the same TV
program there was a case where a driver had his mothers car, it got
pulled over for some reason, and the driver smelt very strongly of
cannabis, for which a search of the car was carried out, resulting in
other prosecutions unrelated to the original offence.
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