Banned for letting someone test drive your car
05-07-2015, 01:24 AM
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Banned for letting someone test drive your car
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...est-drive.html
Sobering reminder for anyone selling a car. Like me.
A driver selling his car has been banned from driving because the would-be buyer took it for a test drive and was killed in a crash.
Mark Saunders, 49, did not check if Clifford Stroud, 47, was insured when he came for a test drive in his silver Ford Mondeo.
A court heard Saunders was in the passenger seat when Mr Stroud lost control on a bend and skidded off the road. The silver Ford Mondeo estate left a road running below a railway embankment and slammed into some trees.Mr Stroud was killed in the collision and Saunders was left with a dislocated shoulder after he was cut from the wreckage.
Saunders was charged with aiding and abetting another using a motor vehicle without third party insurance. He was fined £150, with £620 costs, and disqualified from driving for 12 months by magistrates in Swansea.
Mark Saunders, 49, did not check if Clifford Stroud, 47, was insured when he came for a test drive in his silver Ford Mondeo.
A court heard Saunders was in the passenger seat when Mr Stroud lost control on a bend and skidded off the road. The silver Ford Mondeo estate left a road running below a railway embankment and slammed into some trees.Mr Stroud was killed in the collision and Saunders was left with a dislocated shoulder after he was cut from the wreckage.
Saunders was charged with aiding and abetting another using a motor vehicle without third party insurance. He was fined £150, with £620 costs, and disqualified from driving for 12 months by magistrates in Swansea.
05-07-2015, 02:19 AM
#2
Only in Britain...
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05-07-2015, 02:41 AM
#4
Huh?
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05-07-2015, 02:50 AM
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05-07-2015, 03:56 AM
#6
This does seem a bit daft. So someone gets into a car, knowingly and by their own volition, starts it up, drives it so hard that they crash it, doesn't have insurance, and it's partly the passenger's fault? I think it's a perfectly reasonable (if slightly naive) assumption that an adult knows and complies with the law. Does it really make a difference to liability whether the seller asks for proof or not? Is it really the seller's responsibility to ensure that someone else has insurance? If I lend a friend a car, do I now have to make him show his insurance details?!
05-07-2015, 04:04 AM
#7
As the owner and keeper of the vehicle the onus is on you to make sure that people who use the vehicle are insured. Makes sense when you think about it, the best thing the owner could have done is driven the car himself, failing that let the buyer take it on his own and then you could claim he proved he was insured but is now too dead to be questioned about it.
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05-07-2015, 04:14 AM
#8
As above - onus is on the owner. It's you that hands the keys over!
Yet another reason why i prefer to trade vehicles in.
Yet another reason why i prefer to trade vehicles in.
05-07-2015, 04:59 AM
#9
it's a little harsh isnt it?
in the past when buying we've shook hands on a bend it/bought it
in reality if you have fully comp you're usually covered 3rd party on someone elses car so that would suffice legally
in the past when buying we've shook hands on a bend it/bought it
in reality if you have fully comp you're usually covered 3rd party on someone elses car so that would suffice legally
05-07-2015, 05:02 AM
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