£80 fine for scrapped vehicle.

[seanamarts]

Im sure that you have all heard of this scenario.

 

My friend scrapped a car sent conformation to the DVLA to say that the car was no longer in his possession as it had been scrapped.

 

My friend is a mechanic and has scrapped many cars over the years without a problem.

 

However just recently he gets a fine for a car he had scrapped, he feels that this is an oversight on behalf of the DVLA and rings them to state that no conformation had been received.

 

He tells them that its not his fault that this information had been lost and could they check again.

 

A few weeks later he gets a letter from Inter-credit consultants demanding the £80. He calls them up and states the same as he did to DVLA.

They wouldnt hear it and basically said he has to pay the fine.

 

I emailed DVLA asking them to recheck their files and how can they prove that the conformation was not sent.

Another week later he gets another debt letter from this company stating that he can pay off the fine in small payments and that he must call them to set up a payment plan.

The day after he gets another letter from them to state that they had received the email that was sent to DVLA and stated that the information sent does release him from the fine.

 

So basically DVLA sent on the email straight to the debt collectors and didnt even respond or look into this.

 

I know my friend is very good with his paper work with regards to car documents as he deals with cars and scrapping a lot if the time and this is the first time that this has ever happened.

 

Does he roll over and pay this fine or can he fight this.

 

Thanks guys.

[dx100uk]

no

 

several threads on this here.

 

its a dvla error

 

the dca has no powers.

 

dx

[sgtbush]

did you get the certificate of scrappage from the company that scapped the car for you??

if not then you have not followed the correct procedure required in legislation

[seanamarts]

As far as I am aware he did, as I have said he regularly scraps cars and never had a problem.

[Tony P]

This sounds like a 'classic' case of DVLA losing a document (but of course never admitting it).

The sort of thing that occupies over half the threads on this subforum. The unusual thing here it being over a scrapped vehicle sooner than a transferred one.

 

What I wonder about is the "fine". For a fine there should have been a Court conviction.

 

Or is it just an in-house penalty ?

 

Either way there are (or were) routes of dealing with things.

[seanamarts]

I will be emailing both debt company and DVLA again! placing a complaint with both and for this to be investigated. Does anyone know who is best to send an email too with regards to the DVLA as filling out one of their online forms seems to be a waste of time.