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Thu 19 May 2011 23:09

Outstanding motoring fines when someone dies? - wiltshire_driver

What happens to oustanding motoring-related fines when someone dies? Do they get written off?

Someone I know died recently after several weeks of illness and during that time it appears they incurred one or more fines for no MOT and/or no insurance and/or no road tax.

The deceased's partner is worried about whether they will be liable for these fines, even though they don't drive.

Will the deceased's car get towed and crushed?

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Thu 19 May 2011 23:24

Outstanding motoring fines when someone dies? - FP

I believe that when someone dies with an unpaid debt that debt continues to exist against the estate of the dead person. I would have thought that an unpaid fine would be the same.

I doubt that the deceased's car will be seized - more likely the executors will have to settle the fine out of the deceased's estate. If they were skint and it means selling the car, so be it!

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Fri 20 May 2011 10:13

Outstanding motoring fines when someone dies? - SlidingPillar

Strictly, it's a debt on the estate. The car is also now owned by the estate so unless the law has been written to seize the driver or their estate's property - the latter of which I very much doubt, it can't be seized.

Hopefully the executors are the sort of folk who'll ring up and explain. I'm guessing there is a good chance at some of the debts being written off as payment from estates can be slow.

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