Abandoned Vehicles

[tiggerblue10]

Not sure which cat. to put this in so putting it here.

I've had several issues with abandoned cars near my house over the years. I posted about an abandoned car before on AB and kind of got shouted down for reporting it unnecessarily and causing the owner grief.

Anyway, there is a car parked outside my neighbours house which has been there for well over 6 months now. It has 2 flat tires, a wing mirror dangling from its wires and an open sun roof. It has been in that state since it was left there.

One of my neighbours said she reported it to the council a few months ago and said that another neighbour had reported it twice before as well. She also told me that some builders working on a house 2 doors down from me had contacted the authorities to find out who it belonged to for it to be moved to enable transport of building materials and skips. The builders were told that it had valid tax from Feb 18 and that they couldn't do anything about it.

Parking is a nightmare on my road and very often I have to park far from my house if I don't get home till late. I've also seen another car at the end of the road with a 7 day removal notice on it although the 7 days has been and gone!

I know it probably differs from council to council but what would you class as an abandoned vehicle and how long would you wait before reporting it?

[webbo3]

call the police and tell them you've seen kids mucking about with it and you worried they may do something or get hurt, when the police show lack of interest give it 24 hrs the push it in the road, they cant put it back as they would be abandoning a car.

[tiggerblue10]

How do you push a car into the middle of the road? Its a small one lane traffic road which is heavily used. Loads of parked cars around as well including mine.

[TonyV]

if you obstruct highway because you cannot move your car then police will arrive quickly

[webbo3]

\\How do you push a car into the middle of the road? Its a small one lane traffic road which is heavily used. Loads of parked cars around as well including mine.//

Late at night or early morning

[TonyV]

Ok alternative is to inform DVLA that you have problem

[TonyV]

Webbo if it causes an obstruction in road dosent matter what time but police will probably just push it back into place

[tiggerblue10]

At the risk of sounding stupid, which in my case is pretty normal, how do you physically push a car out? Just me, by myself, and in full view of neighbours? Or is this just a term used for starting a car and manoeuvring it out of its place?

[TonyV]

If it's causing you and neighbors a problem then it's quite easy to move a car with a few people