Right last night me and cossi nick a.k.a "nac nac" on here was out in the Xr2 (cossi off road for "inprovments") last night at around 23:50pm.

After doing some shopping in adsa we come off the car park and entered into a roundabout, as it was a bit slippy nick decided to all the way around the roundabout whilst shouting "you operate the handbrake" lol as you can imagine we slided all the way round the roundabout and proceeded to pull off in doing so we spotted the police spectating @ the lights Here we goooo.............................

Cops lights on instantly and pulls directly in frount of us, now usual proceedure follow.

Officer no 1 - "get out of the car please and turn your engine off!"
Officer no 2 - "Come over here lad, right what you think you were doing then?"
Nick - "Pissing about officer"

Copper then PNC's the car and driver and both come back clear. Getting to the point the copper then says "you will be receiving a letter through the post, to appear in court" Nothing else. Gets in his van and away he goes.

If he had bothered to check the car he would have seen there was no tax on the car either(log book arrived this morning).
Copper didt read him his rights, dint take his address off hime and gave him no paper work eg producer or nething. The only details taken was his name, date of birth and car reg.

Now where does this leave nick will he get busted? or is the copper just trying to shit him up abit? i was under the impression that all driving offences had to have "your rights read to you" cop gave no timescale of contact and surely they have to comfirm address with you if there "gonna send a letter"

Advice guys????

 

Use the handbrake with your own left hand and get a spacker ball on the steering wheel, this should make it much easier to drift out.

well done for trying it with two people tho

 

What improvements is the 3 door having then ?

nac nac should know better lol

 

Don't worry until the nip comes through.

 

Bushes etc just gerenal tiding up whilst the weather is bad lol

 

in the clear? or will letter have his rights written on it lol????

 

Has the S1 gone then ?

 

nah his still got that 2 lol wasting away in back garden think his Zetec -ing it in the summer and tiding all body work up got the xr2 4 200 quid n its fookin quiet mint recaros stright in lol

 

 

 

 

the advice i would give is get some foooking road tax on it or you aint insured either,cant condone it mate sorry .

 

they usually tell you to have your
licence and paperwork at your nearest
police station within 7 days.

 

would never admit to anything, your doing there job for them

should have lied, its was slippery etc, was trying and suceeded in regain control etc etc

 

im sure nothing they can do if they gave you no paperwork at side of road then he should be fine copper probly just trying to worry you

 

I was always under the impression if they didnt read you your rights at the scene then bring you to court technically they never charged you in the first place. The best thing as has been said is never to admiss guilt.

 

Doest say we dont have insurance!!!! it says couldt get tax as log book only just been returned!! read the post!

thanks every1 else for replying

 

AFAIK you have to have a producer and they'll give you a bit of paper with all your details and why they pulled you over etc. Sounds like he was just in the mood to piss you off.. would have lied personally.

 

this is true,i got into a bit of a scrape a few years back for something and it was thrown out of court as i hadnt been read my rights when i was charged....i just got the "we will see you in court" and they buggered off to deal with something else

 

Cheers man thats what i needed to hear!

 

But has the vehicle currently got a valid tax disc?

If not, I think you'll find yourself uninsured.

 

fpmsl!!!

 

Like i was getting at

 

dont they only have to read your rights if they are arresting you? otherwise theres no point!

 

the tax thing is another myth isn't it?

a car doesn't have to be taxed to be insured as far as I can remember.


I'd like to hear a first person account that anyone has actually been fined for not having insurance due to no tax.

MOT yeah..... as they can say the car isnt considered roadworthy

 

i THINK your insurance is not valid if you dont have tax or mot. wether thats cos u dint bother getting it. or u coulnt for what ever reason.

u can get tax with the green slip off the log book form i think. so log book in the post aint really a great reason not to have it.
just incase it wouldnt be a bad idea to get the tax sorted out.
but i think he was just trying to scare you.

 

Exactly, I would look completely plain faced whilst saying it as well with that hint of relief that you havent stacked your car because of the 'diesel' that must have been on the island.

 

I had avery similar thing...well i wasnt being quite as silly mine was a genuine mistake...the handbrake DID get stuck Actaully it wasnt even that silly, i turned across a 'no turn' sign.

Copper pulled me over, told me i drive like a prick etc... just took my name, address, gave me a producer then said you havent got away with this, you ARE going to court, expect a summons for dangerous driving asap. I didnt think you could do this without proper rights being read/explnation etc...

Shit it for about 6 months...about 2 years ago now so i wouldnt worry at all imo.

 

just blagg thats all i did, an unmarked Volvo T5 got me on the dash mounted camera comin sideways of a junction nr my house, pulled me over gimme the usual crap callin me all sorts, i played dumb, sed i tried nip out of junction etc, and steered into it to correct it, then he proceeded to tell me the difference between front and rear wheel drive cars, (was amusin listenin to him), understeer, oversteer etc. let me go without a producer or owt, waited for him to go, then turned round and went n did it all over agen

 

That's what it says in my insurance documents. The only get out is I AM covered to drive to and from a MOT test centre without valid tax or MOT providing the test is pre-booked