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Jan 30, 2022 19:29:25 GMT
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Look I know it’s wrong…….butttt this made me chuckle today tbh Beat the system for years and no way could it happen now If your my age, 53 and you never committed a road traffic offence years ago I’d say your either a liar or a nun😁 I did get a no insurance fine and points in the mid 80s silly boy I know Never committed or never been caught committing? One is liar/nun country, the other is just lucky….. Nick
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Jan 30, 2022 19:39:35 GMT
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Think its remarkable given how many cameras of various sorts you see around Nottinghamshire, and Bulwell isn't rural(where I could see that being feasible to dodge cameras for a while)...article shows a late model mini, so amazed there wasn't a stack of RFL charges against him.🤔 I didn’t read the article that closely but let’s be honest (& yes I do know) Bulwell is a horrible today. I’m sure being an old boy he’s not part of it, but oh dear me, it’s drugs, sh1t tracksuits, Landrovers (not the automobile, but the 4x4 female variety) liquid breakfast at Wetherspoons type place just generally not nice. Anyhow if he did it, he’s just lucky he didn’t kill or injure anyone. Generally people just think about hitting another car but what if you say hit someone on a crossing that just happens to be earning £200k a year & you do damage to them that means they can’t work again & they are only 23 yrs old. That’s what insurance is for, not some d1ckhead that just thinks he’s saved himself 90 quid. Total w4nkers
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Last Edit: Jan 30, 2022 19:42:49 GMT by rattlecan
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Jan 30, 2022 20:07:40 GMT
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Someone I knew in the 90s used to work 15 miles away and he owned a Mk4 Cortina. He drove it on a Provisional Licence everywhere. Even the officer who stopped him for speeding didn't even notice it was a provisional. He got away with it too - I somehow doubt he would be able to today though. Amusingly he bought insurance as normal - the company never even asked him about his licence - it was all "assumed" back then. Still would have been void, but things were a lot more lax back then.
To be fair to him he did take and pass a test after the speeding incident as he could see the writing was on the wall and he's been incident free ever since.
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in the early 2000's an uncle of mine had an accident on the M1. he was 92 with no Licence as he had grandfather rights and learned to drive whilst serving in the military. He was told he could drive again IF he got a licence which they thought would be a way of keeping him off the road.
He got 100% in his hazard perception and passed first time! He drove for another year before retiring from driving on his terms.
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1966 Ford Cortina GT 2018 Ford Fiesta ST
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mrbig
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Jan 31, 2022 13:30:25 GMT
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I've seen this story across several forms of social media and I don't understand the positive responses across the board. Everyone else has paid for their insurance, driving licence and test; why are they not curse word off this guy just hasn't bothered. I'd have saved a minimum of £300 a year for the last 25 years if I'd decided to just 'not bother'.
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1969 German Look Beetle - in progress
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Jan 31, 2022 14:19:19 GMT
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Not the first time there's been no consistency between cases. One of those 'police camera makeup' programmes a while ago stopped a metro (?) with an old boy driving with no mot etc, he got the 'poor old sod' treatment. If that was a 20 year old in a saxo, where's the handcuffs?
Edit - still not sure this hasn't been embellished because 'news'
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Jan 31, 2022 19:59:43 GMT
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My Dad drove for at least 40 years on a provisional licence.
Always had his insurance through a broker (remember them?), so who knows what they said to the insurer about how come a 60-yr old had a provisional licence. He actually passed his test AFTER me, which is odd.
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My Dad drove for at least 40 years on a provisional licence. Always had his insurance through a broker (remember them?), so who knows what they said to the insurer about how come a 60-yr old had a provisional licence. He actually passed his test AFTER me, which is odd. Yes but that’s a waste of money, because unless you have a license for that vehicle you are NOT insured, so no he didn’t have any insurance
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Fair point, I don't recall him ever being done for no insurance despite getting the odd 'producer' from our boys in blue. Having said that, my only recollections are from when I lived at home in the 80's, so maybe things were different then? Dunno. Certainly wouldn't recommend it, just recounting a relevant story.
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It's amazing that neither static or police vehicle ANPR didn't catch him in recent times, there are cameras everywhere in urban areas and main thoroughfares. It does beg the question as to just how accurate the article, or the old boys story, actually are.
Until quite recently though I can easily believe that someone could get away with it in the long term. Back in the early/mid 90s I knew plenty of people who would drive cars or ride bikes with no insurance etc and the only way to get caught was a random tug. No cameras to speak of, paper licences with no photo, as well as iffy, paper copied insurance documents with no easily accessible computer record (buy policy, cancel and get a refund and then 'forget' to return the document) along with a bit of patter and it was an easy blag.
Was it right? No. Did it happen? Of course.
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mk2cossie
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Surely all the ANPR stuff in the world would look up the vehicle history, and "see" it has tax, and insurance on the system. And not worry about issuing any fines However, it won't know the driver only has a provisional licence instead of a full one. But nothing is flagged because the computer systems all say it is a legal vehicle No MOT isn't (or wasn't) a criminal offence, so I'd imagine that side of things wasn't an issue
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