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Presumably the apprentice will be done for six points and £200 fine for driving without insurance.

I had a close call on that when I paid the insurance on my motorbike which I used to drive from mid Essex to Fitzrovia (Post Office Tower area) each day by credit card.
Three months later I got stopped on a random check in Seven Sisters Road and got told I had no insurance. The bike was impounded.

It transpired that the debit did not go through due to an incorrect digit. The monthly credit card bill mimics the National Debt and I look at the statement to check if there is something there which should not be rather than to check if everything is there which should be. The insurance company insisted they had written to me to tell me. I never received the letter which they had only sent once and had not followed up my failure to respond.
Anyway I paid the insurance and collected the bike from Greenwich with the normal £120 or so charge for transport and storage.

Luckily I was able to get the insurance company to certify that it was an administrative cock-up and that they would have covered me in the case of a claim in the "uninsured" period so avoided the £200 and six points.

I sit, corrected, Joy....


thanks.

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I hope he didn't give them a piece of his mind cos I ain't going out at night in this weather to bail him out. :-D :-D :-D

Anyway Allan timing aside did anyone ever hear back from Rollo or is he stuck at the pound.......

Greta Garbo. :-D

You are not "A wone", Allan, save a seat fer me....
I too, t'other day declared a sudden-ish death notice for someone that had been gone for some time....

(I "want to be Awone....." was that Zsa Zsa? or Marlene?)

You might have a lovely surprise, Allan, and find that oblivion is even better!

Who knows?

:-D

My time is flying towards oblivion, Maggie, but I'm still enjoying it :-D :-D :-D

Time flies when you're having fun! :-D :-D :-D

As for memory, I've just seen the date of the news article..it was just over eight years ago :-S

That's okay Allan getting speeds wrong from memory is acceptable. :-)

Here's what happened

http://www.news.com.au/national/lamborghini-impounded-under-hoon-laws/news-story/5cdf732cb8cd20f7af5dbff4fe7d38c1

I may have got my speeds wrong in my post, but basically the event panned out as I said

Wonder what happened in the end......

Well, an interesting point re garages/staff and customers cars.

In WA we have so called "hoon" laws covering various offences, one of which is driving at 45 kph above the posted speed limit.the penalty for which is having your car impounded, and possibly crushed.

One guy with a high performance sports car left it at a garage for a service. One mechanic decided to 'road-test' the vehicle and was clocked by the police doing 60 kph over the speed limit.

Even though the owner had not given the garage permission to drive the car, other than for general movement around the garage, he was the one who, under the law, was responsible and his very expensive car was impounded for twenty eight days and copped all the associated costs.

Name and shame them on social media.

The parking gestapo take full advantage of that but the garage always pays the tickets.

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surely they have lots of angry car owners who recive a parking fine ,,,,,,,,as it will go to the registered keeper of the car and not the garage ,,,,,even if its in for repairs, the garage have a responsibilty of care.

You would think any cost that is the fault of the garage or it's employees is the garage's as far as the customer is concerned as the contract for the work to be done is with the garage.

However, I had a look at this and the bit about offences at the bottom was a revelation to me, as I always thought the driver would be responsible for these fines.

http://www.yourdrivinglicence.co.uk/can-garage-mechanic-drive-car-while-for-repair.html

One of the young customer service lads at my garage had to apologise for not fetching my car from their huge pound to the door for me as he said he was not old enough to be on the company's insurance, even though he would be driving on the company's own land and not going on a public road.

Taking care of your car would be implied terms of your contract with the garage I think.