This can't be right surely? Driving related!

[grinchyxmcgrinch]

Quite a long story so apologies in advance. A friend of a friend was talking to me earlier about her DH. He went on a night out drinking and (despicably) got so drunk he thought it a good idea to drive a car with no tax or insurance (previously kept in the garage as needed mot doing) on his way to the shop he was followed by police. To get away from them he drove away quickly and lost control of the car on a roundabout and hit a parked car. He got out of the car and hid in a forest area. Week later he went to the pound and collected the car. So far there has been no attempt by the police to speak to him or any kind of contact regarding it. He cant honestly have got away wth this can he? Surely somebody will get in touch soon? This happened from what she's saying about 4 months ago! If I do much as pay my tax a day let the dvla are straight on my case!

[Nirvanababy]

Someone's lying. Of course the police would have

• figured out the registered owner
  
• seen that the owner was uninsured, untaxed and possibly unMOT'd
  
• would have charged said person for not only driving an untaxed and uninsured vehicle. But would have also done them for hit and run
  However, if the person did do all the above then they're lying about getting good away with it.
  Besides, why would the police, after following a car in such this position just 'allow' the car to be bailed out of the impound?
  
  There is no way in hell that this happened. Was the friend of a friend showing off?

[grinchyxmcgrinch]

The feeling I got was she was genuinely concerned about what the repercussions are going to be. I've checked the tax and MOT on the car online and it is definitely not taxed or MOT'd and the car has definitely been in a crash

[Chitterlings]

I'm impressed you know a friend of a friends DH's registration number to check up - I don't even know my own!

I would think that if it wasnt mot'd, taxed, insured and in a garage it had been declared SORN.

He goes to the police, reports his car stolen and they tell him it's in the pound. They have no proof he was the driver, as he hid.

[grinchyxmcgrinch]

The car is now on their driveway that's the only way I knew. Surely they can do DNA etc to prove he was driving?

[Redglitter]

If his car was impounded after all that the pound staff would have instructions not to release it until the owner had been spoken to. The police aren't that daft they're not going to randomly believe a car involved in an incident has been genuinely stolen. They'll have heard that story several dozen times before

You've only got their word for the fact the police haven't spoken to him. I'd put money on that not bring the case

[Ellisandra]

DNA to prove he was driving?!

The story you have heard is a lie.
My best guess is that the drunken arsehole was never followed by the police at all, and actually crashed the car (speeding or not) because he was drunk. He thinks he's cool for some bullshit I-escaped-the-fuzz story - plus he can blame the crash on a police chase rather than his own shit drunken driving.

Whatever version of the story is true, I would not want to be married to this arsehole.

[prh47bridge]

Surely they can do DNA etc to prove he was driving

A DNA test would only prove that he has been in the car at some point. It might even show that he has handled the controls. It could not prove that he has ever driven the car and certainly could not prove it was driving it at the time it crashed. So the police would be spending in excess of £1,000 on a test that proved nothing. Unless CCTV or witness evidence is available the police may struggle to prove he was driving the car.

[greenfolder]

They could not have picked the car up from the pound without it being insured.

[grinchyxmcgrinch]

I don't know how they got the car back but it is 100% back at their house on their driveway. Part of me wants to phone and report him as he endangered so many people by not only drink driving but drink driving without even having an not to know if the car is safe to be on the road!

[Ellisandra]

In my local area (I just googled) the car recovery scheme for abandoned cars ALWAYS alerts the police to untaxed vehicles they recover.

I think the whole thing is bullshit.
Cars don't get towed unless they are parked in restricted zones or look abandoned.

I think, he took it out drunk. Went to a pub, forgot where he parked it, then went to get it back himself - and thinks the police chase story is cool