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I'd just try and let the driver know if I noticed a defect with their car. It's their responsibility to sort it, of they don't it's up to them.
I'd just try and let the driver know if I noticed a defect with their car. It's their responsibility to sort it, if they don't it's up to them.
I regularly see bald tyres on cars near schools. The surprising things is how often I see it on more expensive cars, where you'd expect it to be picked up from servicing. Why you'd drive a £30 - 60k car with children on illegal tyres?!
Because it’s exceedingly unlikely you’ll get caught.
I see this a lot. I even got the title of unofficial MOT tester at work due to my "curtain twitcher" attitude to peoples cars.
Just walking past cars ive spotted, missing exhausts, rubber through to the wire. oil, petrol, coolant and power steering pump leaks to the point where the cars are undrivable and/or damaging others property.
best one so far was the chap who drove into work down the M62 (rishworth to brighouse ) with the exhaust broken at the downpipe and dragging on the floor the whole time. Tied it up with wire at work and didnt get it fixed till the weekend (it had chamfered off the end).
or the chap that had an earth fault so used a 4" G glamp to clamp it to his chassis. used to fall off on the way in, didnt seem to be bothered who it hit when it fell off and just and nicked another from stores.
Tomorrow in work there will be at least 4 cars in the carpark that would fail an MOT. told them. No one cares, wait to see if it gets through the next MOT.....
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
As another road user, someone with a dangerous vehicle on the roads is my business.
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
Very civic-minded, I’m sure… *rolls eyes*
So, you’re perfectly fine with the very real risk of one of those drivers losing control on a wet road and skidding into a group of parents with kids in pushchairs, then?
I'd say this was a case of mind your own business.
Very civic-minded, I’m sure… *rolls eyes*
So, you’re perfectly fine with the very real risk of one of those drivers losing control on a wet road and skidding into a group of parents with kids in pushchairs, then?
This came off a working Royal Mail van - they just didn’t give a toss about the roadworthiness or whether it was
Actually they do, liability see. Which they pass on to the postie with daily van checks. An ex-collegue of mine was fired, one of the contributing factors being his van was found with a dangerously worn tyre after he had been repeatedly filling in the van check as all ok without actually checking. The fact that they fit the vans with cheap shit tyres that have no grip in bad weather is another matter.
Tomorrow in work there will be at least 4 cars in the carpark that would fail an MOT. told them. No one cares, wait to see if it gets through the next MOT.....
For anyone in this position there's a solution https://www.police.uk/pu/contact-us/a-road-traffic-incident/
This beams you through to the appropriate local police page to make an online report