The driver of a Skoda Octavia has had their vehicle seized after Police caught it being driven without tax this morning (Thursday).
Officers from the Joint Operations Unit stopped the vehicle at B&Q car park when it flagged up that the car had been declared off the road – known as SORN.
To help address the problem of untaxed vehicles on our roads, the DVLA have devolved powers to police forces under the Vehicle Excise Duty Regulations 1997. This means that if a car has been untaxed for 8 weeks or more Police are able to seize vehicles.
The Skoda Octavia estate will now be held for a period of time to allow the owner to tax it and pay recovery costs. However, if they do not comply with the DVLA requirements then, dependant on value, the vehicle will either be scrapped or auctioned.
Look at the state of it, crumpled down the nearside.
Crush it send the owner the bill and a huge fine for driving untaxed.
There are many vehicles going around not road worthy, they only get caught if they go to Newport
Carry out checks along main Roads, eg Beaper Shute, Marlborough Road & Great Preston Road in Ryde etc
Also what about no MOT’S
HOW ABOUT TOWING VEHICLES AWAY THAT ARE PARKED ON PAVEMENTS
Yes two vans parked on Great Preston road all day today. Police MUST have seen them. Too tired to get out of the car to bother.
cannot find officers to turn up at a burgled address or arrest shoplifters, but can sure find officers to rinse people for not having paid the thieving government for the privilege of driving on the road.
Just drove down Great Preston Road and there has been a large van parked outside the Council Houses on the Pavement all day!
Surely causing traffic congestion by doing so, these vehicles should be Towed away!
Take a picture and post it on social media, include the number plate and shame them.
No one on the Island of Authority will do anything about it.
I read an article revently that Ian Ward a so called Councillor is going to do something
about vehicles Parking on Pavements (all talk).
The Council appear to be useless, the leader is clueless and the Island MP lives on the Mainland.
what chance do we have!
Someone soon will get seriously injured by having too walk out in the Road
where they cannot walk safely in pavements.
THE ISLE OF WIGHT SEEMS TO HAVE NO IDEA OF HEALTH AND SAFETY.
Whatever happened to Highways Dept doing their job, do they no longer exist on the Island!
The shame is on you. Social media used in the way you suggest is for cowards. The van was legally parked. It was not causing an obstruction. It may have been an inconvenience to some motorists but so is a bus stopping to take on passengers for example. In fact I think the driver showed consideration by parking on the pavement as they could have parked squarely on the road which would have caused more problems.
I doubt wheel chair users, the blind or those with poor eyesight, and the myriad of parents pushing children in wheeled prams would agree, then having to step into the extremely busy traffic flow.
It is of no surprise to me that a van was parked outside a council home, for the inhabitants of many care nothing for others whilst they live in heavily subsidised dwellings funded by the people they scorn.
Likely the vehicle was not even taxed, or insured. Have seen a horrid little yellow car parked on that pavement all day in the same place before.
You are probably right, drove by earlier Van still there!
Obviously a selfish idiot must own the Van.
guess it is your van then mark – pavement for people, road for cars, not too difficult is it.
How about replacing the 20,000 officers that mrs may axed then they might have a chance.
They have also been let down by the Current Government with their pay.
Would be cheaper to not import so many criminals. We have enough of our own to jail now, without jailing the worlds, and THEN having to pay for a home for their oft large families, and then pay their NHS, education, social security, rent and council tax.
Then to add insult to injury, we then have to build over more of our countryside to provide homes for those ‘displaced’ by the additional newcomers here.
No small wonder the UK’s own are getting ever more taxed and facing more cut backs, as ‘someone’ has to pay for such, and it ‘won’t’ be the politicians who allow such here.
Frankly, it
s always thelittlepeople beingcrushedby the state. Did the Police find enough time to stop those with expensive cars and dodgy number plates and those that avoid the speed cameras? Yknow, darkened, not reflective, wrong gaps so the ANPR cant read it. Did they? course not. Do they do a speed check in the early hours when many cars are for want of a wordflyingalong? this in residential areas where people, usually the samelittle` people, are sleeping? NO! Speed check in the early hours on those big HGVs? NO! So they park up in B& Q and catch the little fish. Ever heard of a pandemic and lots of job losses among the hoi polloi?A dodger is a dodger, there is no excuse.
I would have thought that by buying tax it would have doubled the value of the Skoda.
We should go back to paper discs .
That way we can report the untaxed vehicles .
You can check any cars tax status online you just need reg number and make/model then you can report it on same gov site. Mind you waste of time as they never do anything. I’ve reported loads who park in my road and nothing ever happens. Seems no tax is only a problem when they do these blitzes. The idea of going digital was to stop people getting away with it but seems more do now.
Be like shooting fish in a barrel. Just go to all the supermarket car parks.
Everybody can check out vehicle car tax and mot status on the government web site.
https://www.gov.uk/check-vehicle-tax
and if either is not up to date, then they also don’t have insurance.