-Police crushing your car if you dont have a full licence-Can they do that?

[SizzleSquid]

Can the police take your car away from you if you are caught driving with a provisional (not full )license and crush it? What if your car is insured, can they still do it?

[teag1rl]

not sure if it's been rolled out across whole country yet, I know they were doing it somewhere down south. I should think it' s a good thing-stop the little scrote's who haven't got a licence driving round the roads being a danger and a menace to society!! surely the insurance wouldn't be valid anyway if driving a car illegally???

[homer75]

It's an anti-scumbag thing being rolled out just now as teag1rl says and seems to be proving effective so hopefully it will become uk wide.

[Scotman84]

Don't know - but probably another case of the police getting the blame - don't think the police have that power, but they can request things from the courts - so blame the court system, not the police.

[trevHCS]

You're not insured if there's only one person in the car on a provisional licence - they'd just void your cover. Really a better idea would be to sell the cars at auction to be honest as they are worth a lot more that way.

[THECORBYLOON]

The Road Traffic Act 1988 (Retention and Disposal of Seized Motor Vehicles) Regulations 2005 allows seizure of a car when the driver has no valid licence.

[scoobydooby]

It's a good thing - Hampshire are doing this regularly (Traffic Cops, BBC1). However, if you bought a car because you were learning to drive, had a provisional, insurance, tax, MOT etc and you always had a qualified driver with you (i.e parent) it's very unlikely that the car would be ceased. Alarm bells might start to ring if your 'qualified driver' was a young friend and you were breaking speed limits etc, racing around as though you'd already passed your test!