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The Flame Pit / Re: Police have had my car towed away without my consent. Do I have to pay for this?
« on: May 18, 2024, 07:03:18 pm »
cp8759 Many thanks.

I shall follow your suggestion. I needed an objective opinion and yours follows my thinking. I will also put a warning shot across the bow of the towing company that there has been no police suggestion of any offence and that what they do with the car will be at their risk; not that I want the thing again!

I'll update this thread when there is anything interesting to those in a similar dilema and thank you all.

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The Flame Pit / Re: Police have had my car towed away without my consent. Do I have to pay for this?
« on: May 18, 2024, 10:47:29 am »
I very much appreciate the advice from everyone. I'm certainly not a follower of FoTL.

My situation is unlikely to be unique but what it comes down to is that one minute my car was fully legal and the next it was in breach of the regulations (I assume construction and use). At that point, did I commit an offence under which the police exercised their right to remove the vehicle?

If I have committed an offence why haven't the police advised me of this, as noted by cp8759?

At present, the attending police officer is refusing to provide me with the licence number of the vehicle that hit mine, citing the GDPR. The vehicle that hit mine was left abandoned and he is waiting to hear from the registered keeper if the vehicle was stolen, TWOC or otherwise. This puts me in limbo as I can't contact the other vehicle's insurer. In addition, the towing company refuse to provide me with their own photographs, also citing the GDPR,  so I have no records to present to the other party's insurers when I find out who they are.

In practical terms, the towing company won't let me recover my personal effects unless I attend in person with the log book but the log book is in the car, which they won't open because they don't have the door key. I want the log book so that I can SORN the vehicle or have it removed by a breaker. The towing company have said that they won't release the vehicle unless their charges are paid and the will want a further £75 plus VAT for using their forklift to load the car onto any removal vehicle.


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The Flame Pit / Re: Police have had my car towed away without my consent. Do I have to pay for this?
« on: May 17, 2024, 12:35:06 pm »
Unfortunately, I have no idea what FoTL means.
The advice that I have received from an online solicitor is that once the vehicle was damaged it became in breach of the regulations (no longer road worthy) and that the police then had the right to remove it. I don't know whether they should have advised the registered keeper that it needed to be removed beforehand. When the dust settles, I'll make a complaint to the Chief Constable, as advised on the police website.
For now, the costs are down to me.
My only redress is through the Motor Insurers Bureau or the other vehicle's insurer.

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The Flame Pit / Re: Police have had my car towed away without my consent. Do I have to pay for this?
« on: May 17, 2024, 07:18:30 am »
I'm still trying to work out how to reply to posts as I'm new to this forum.
Thank you all three responders.
I suspect that the towing company won't have any contract with the police, otherwise, why are they trying to get money from me? Previous experience makes me think that these type of arrangements are on a "mates" basis.
It's true that I have no contract with the towing company but I don't know if there is any statutory power that the police have to tow and destroy a fully legal vehicle and, if so, does this automatically make the registered keeper liable for the associated costs.
I'll try getting a free thirty minute call with a solicitor on this.
Thanks folks

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The Flame Pit / Police have had my car towed away without my consent. Do I have to pay for this?
« on: May 16, 2024, 04:16:19 pm »
My car was parked legally on the street in Brighton but when I returned to leave town it was missing. I found out from the traffic wardens that the police had instructed a contractor to take my car away because it has been hit by anothger vehicle and it is severley damaged.

The car is in a private compound and I have received a registered letter telling me that I owe this company £300 for towing charges and I will have to pay them £26 per day until I remove the car. If I don't pay their charges and remove the car within 14 days they will destroy it.

The police ordered the company to remove my vehicle without my agreement by a contractor that is charging an extortionate amount.

I have committed no offence and have only third party insurance. I have no contract with this company. The police can't tell me the details of the vehicle that hit my car as the relevant officer hasn't filled in the paperwork and so I cannot contact that vehicle's insurer.

Am I liable to pay these charges?

Can a third party destroy my car against my wishes?

Is the other vehicle's registered keeper liable for the damage and costs caused by their vehicle?

Please help as soon as possible as this is a current ongoing dilema.

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