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[YZ250]

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Perhaps the owner is in hospital or died?

has anyone actually been to the registered address to ask where the owner is? Have they looked on the sytem to see who taxed it last?
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Ooh, that would be far too much trouble. Logical yes, but far too much trouble. 

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It always amazes me how the Police can be "unable to trace the owner" when the car must be registered to someone. Mrs. KW got the same answer when she was involved in a hit and run. Number plate, CCTV footage, a business card that he'd left at a premises shortly before the accident but no, "unable to trace the owner".
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Having been in that same situation I know what you mean. I've still got the letter from the police which states "we have exhausted all avenues of enquiry but have not been successful in tracing the owner". My reply to them was that they would soon trace the owner if it went through a speed camera.    We eventually traced the owner ourselves and their insurer paid out. 

A simple house call, speak to neighbours etc should resolve this, but I presume nobody has been allocated the time to do such a simple task. 

[05omegav6]

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Perhaps the owner is in hospital or died?

has anyone actually been to the registered address to ask where the owner is? Have they looked on the sytem to see who taxed it last?
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Ooh, that would be far too much trouble. Logical yes, but far too much trouble. 

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It always amazes me how the Police can be "unable to trace the owner" when the car must be registered to someone. Mrs. KW got the same answer when she was involved in a hit and run. Number plate, CCTV footage, a business card that he'd left at a premises shortly before the accident but no, "unable to trace the owner".
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Having been in that same situation I know what you mean. I've still got the letter from the police which states "we have exhausted all avenues of enquiry but have not been successful in tracing the owner". My reply to them was that they would soon trace the owner if it went through a speed camera.    We eventually traced the owner ourselves and their insurer paid out. 

A simple house call, speak to neighbours etc should resolve this, but I presume nobody has been allocated the time to do such a simple task. 

Does rather presume that they have the available manpower

[Kevin Wood]

Does rather presume that they have the available manpower

Well, perhaps if they were honest about a lack of manpower people would vote in a government who would give them a bigger budget.

As it is, they just lose public support.

[TheBoy]

We had a (somewhat unique) woman who worked with us who we used to see regularly as she popped in and out (she was mobile).  Then nobody heard from her in ages.

6 months passed, when her boss got a phonecall about her liveried van parked up in Heathrow short stay for months....


Turns out, she'd got fed up and emigrated. And was still being paid.

[TheBoy]

Dosn't TB have a habit of abandoning his car and forgetting where he left it? 

I'll own up to losing the Battlebus in Wolverhampton one week.  But it was a very fuzzy week.  I know we were barred from one pub because my Geordie colleague, after serveral pints, could say a sentence without the fruck word.  I recall Hadoop being a rather dry subject when the head is delicate 

I occasionally need to loose a car, like this week, into one of the local parking areas.  There's one near me that I normally use, but if its full, I have to put it somewhere else.  If I don't really concentrate when I get out, I can't always remember where I put it.  Maybe that's the cause of my OCD - everything has to be precisely in its place, else I won't have a clue where I've put it 

[ronnyd]

We had a (somewhat unique) woman who worked with us who we used to see regularly as she popped in and out (she was mobile).  Then nobody heard from her in ages.

6 months passed, when her boss got a phonecall about her liveried van parked up in Heathrow short stay for months....


Turns out, she'd got fed up and emigrated. And was still being paid.

[X30XE]

1. That grass couldn't be more fake.

2. This is nothing... least it's in a parking area and taxed! There's a green BMW 3 series abandoned in a bus stop just off J22 of the M25 that's been there for weeks if not months now that Hertfordshite council are to bone idle to remove