Blooming Personalities C/D 30Th November
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Er if you've declared SORN you don't need road tax so it isn't serious at all! Maybe you meant that!
There is also a new system that automatically tracks car movements via their number plates it's been in a number of petrol stations for some time. If the Police want to find a car and have a plate they can get an alert when the system picks up the car - everybody has to fill up.
Scary isn't it?
S.O.R.N. = Statutory Off Road Notification. The car must be off the road (any public highway) otherwise you can be done for no road tax.
One has a dilemma, if no road tax and nowhere off-road to put the car you run the risk of being prosecuted for no road tax. You can't submit a SORN if the vehicle is on the road.
When the road tax lapses it will come to the attention of the computer which will automatically start the procedures for prosecution against the registered keeper. The only get-out is the SORN but if there's nowhere to go off road.......They've gotcha.
Is it possible that the camera car is gathering evidence that the car is still on the road, maybe being driven by the person who is not the registered keeper?
Jake-the-peg The system used by the Police and petrol filling stations are called ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) systems.
The systems installed in filling stations are only linked to recording systems that are used if there is a drive off.
It is against the law (Data Protection Act 1998) for the owner of a system to give the images away to the Police to help them catch drivers without tax.
The only time these images can be used is for investigations of crime, ie theft, murder etc where the offender may be pictured on the forecourt at a certain time, therefore putting them in an area at this time. If the police seize these images they have to provide receipts and take statements as to the purpose of the seizure to maintain a trail of evidence.
Finally, if the Police tried to get a prosecution based on images from a filling station, the Police and forecourt owner would be in breach of the data protection act and the images wouldnt be admissable in a court.
"The ANPR system is made up of cameras that send pictures of number plates to a computer. The computer has loaded into it lists of registration numbers that we may be interested in...."
http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/hgvpsvoperators/vosaroadsidechecks/automaticnumberplaterecognition.htm