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Mon 2 Aug 2004 17:38
driving written off motor - rustbucket
A colegue of mine had his company C5 "T" boned at traffic lights in France. the vehicle was recovered to the UK and as was not yet 12 months old with low mileage was given a new body shell by Citreon. He has now been driving it since rebuild approx 10 months, this is the crunch, road fund due at end of month,the Lease company cannot re tax it as DVLA says that it was written off in the accident.Insurance company, lease hire company and every one else involved say that they did not inform DVLA of it being written of, so who did? At the moment things are not progressing any further than everyone blaming everyone else.Interesting situation we wait to see the outcome.But it does raise the question of the situation the driver is in if stopped by police or involved in another accident as he was totally unaware of the situation ie he was driving a written off vehicle acording to the DVLA.

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Mon 2 Aug 2004 17:59
driving written off motor - patently
Ouch. I bet they still manage to fine him if he doesn't tax it, though!
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Mon 2 Aug 2004 18:18
driving written off motor - DavidHM
There's nothing stopping a vehicle from being driven after being written off - a write off, in and of itself, only refers to the vehicle's economic repairability.

However, if the accident was serious enough to justify a re-shell then there is every chance that the vehicle's identification numbers aren't lining up, and/or the shell was scrapped and this led to the DVLA's being notified.

www.dvla.gov.uk/vehicles/regrebil.htm says what should have been done.
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