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Last night I had a car pull alongside me blaring the horn and shouting that I should be on the shared use pavement and not on the road.
(this is a common occurrence but with the path unlit, having 2 bus stops and any number of unseen hazards along it I prefer the road)
Anyway - I got the car reg and discovered via the Gov.uk website that it has no MOT - so I phoned the bill this morning and shopped him

Well done. But let's hope they got the right bloke and the offender wasn't driving a cloned vehicle.

Hi,
The last time that happened to me it was a gravel truck.
Time before was a Large American looking parcel van.

Count yourself lucky

Revolution wrote: I got the car reg and discovered via the Gov.uk website that it has no MOT - so I phoned the bill this morning and shopped him

But will they do anything? Unless they see it being driven on the road they may just ignore it, and the driver/registered keeper with claim he hasn't used it? Last year I saw a car being driven through our village by a guy with a huge (possibly the biggest I've ever seen) dog on his lap (maybe the dog was steering ) Joking aside, I 'phoned the Police and they didn't seem too bothered. When I did a check (which said I would commit an offence if it wasn't my vehicle that I was checking), the car hadn't had an MOT for some 6 weeks. I just hope the Police did a check and followed it up. Maybe this is the new Assisted Driving, with the dog paying more attention

Revolution wrote:Last night I had a car pull alongside me blaring the horn and shouting that I should be on the shared use pavement and not on the road.
(this is a common occurrence but with the path unlit, having 2 bus stops and any number of unseen hazards along it I prefer the road)
Anyway - I got the car reg and discovered via the Gov.uk website that it has no MOT - so I phoned the bill this morning and shopped him

You should report him for road rage. That's careless driving as a minimum, and other public order offences may apply.

fastpedaller wrote:

Revolution wrote: I got the car reg and discovered via the Gov.uk website that it has no MOT - so I phoned the bill this morning and shopped him

But will they do anything? Unless they see it being driven on the road they may just ignore it, and the driver/registered keeper with claim he hasn't used it? Last year I saw a car being driven through our village by a guy with a huge (possibly the biggest I've ever seen) dog on his lap (maybe the dog was steering ) Joking aside, I 'phoned the Police and they didn't seem too bothered. When I did a check (which said I would commit an offence if it wasn't my vehicle that I was checking), the car hadn't had an MOT for some 6 weeks. I just hope the Police did a check and followed it up. Maybe this is the new Assisted Driving, with the dog paying more attention

Police won't even do anything even when presented with video/photographic evidence so the chances of them doing anything is nil, the fact the motorist committed a criminal offence in the first instance (public order at the very least) as well as dangerous driving will also be ignored by plod, they really are a shower of excrement not fitting of the name constable and what it's supposed to stand for IME.

This is why people including motorists and pedestrians don't bother because police don't do squat, then wonder why motoring still presents a massive problem, their inaction and of politicians is a huge part of the problem that creates an ever worsening circle of @@@@ that includes what happened to the OP and so much worse.

peetee wrote:Well done. But let's hope they got the right bloke and the offender wasn't driving a cloned vehicle.

doesn't matter if it was cloned. If the search on the reg showed up an untaxed or no MOT car then at least one of them will get clamped if found parked up on a road. I like it how the clamps are clearly marked so everyone knows it's clamped for non payment of tax.

I gave the police dashcam video, front AND rear, of a driver speeding which almost caused TWO accidents in the space of ten seconds.

It was a LincsFM branded car. The video showed the registraton number, both incidents, the standard of his driving leading up to said incidents, the registration number of the other car (other than me) he narrowly avoided, as well as a clear photo of the driver's face.

All of this video was date and timestamped, with GPS coordinates of exactly where it happened.

Police response; "insufficient evidence".

Short of me getting a stool sample, I don't know what else they could possibly need.

I just put them on Youtube now. Not wasting my time reporting them.

Hi,
This is the main problem that needs addressing that they always say not enough evidence etc.

But they give free lifts and breakdown recovery's to general public when they want

Why have we not got an APP for reporting this stuff

You can report it (with video evidence) via the NextBase website, and it gets automatically passed to the relevant force to completely ignore.

https://www.nextbase.com/en-gb/national ... ty-portal/