Gardai find 'cloned' car but no charges brought?

Pique

LINKY

This is a bizarre case. Where did the car come from? Surely VW have records of VINs and where the car was shipped to.

He obviously had no insurance on a car that wasn't registered, yet no mention of that.

Isn't having reg plates on a car that they don't belong to breaking the law? No mention of that.


This all sounds shady AF.

Seve OB

Weird

James Bond Junior

GUBU

The Backwards Man

One was probably SDI and the other TDI

Atlantic Dawn

I suppose technically both cars would be insured once they both had same plate on that matched that of the cert of insurance.

Odelay

The area around Buncrana seems to be some sort of Bermuda Triangle for motoring oddities.

Pique

Atlantic Dawn wrote:

I suppose technically both cars would be insured once they both had same plate on that matched that of the cert of insurance.

Not if one of them wasn't registered I would've thought. At least one of them is on fake plates.

Pops_20

No mention in the article of the Gardai following up on the car that "doesn't exist". Do they just not care and leave it at that? Maybe ask the guy himself?

bazz26

Those Donegal folks always up to no good.

Kenny Logins

Pops_20 wrote: »

No mention in the article of the Gardai following up on the car that "doesn't exist". Do they just not care and leave it at that? Maybe ask the guy himself?

Separate case maybe?

Does the DVLA NI share a database with the DVLA UK?

osarusan

Crafty bastard.

Get two cars of the same make, clone the reg plates, then insure and tax one but not the other.

If the police stop you for not having up-to-date nct, tax or insurance displayed (just leave the old ones from the other car in the clone), you turn up at the police station a few days later with valid certs for the car with that registration number.

antodeco

I'm trying to figure out what the benefit to him was, having both? I assume it was someone else could drive the other car at the same time? Big risk just to save money on separate insurance and tax. Unless he was planning on selling one, or one was stolen and then plates changed.

sunnysoutheast

antodeco wrote: »

I'm trying to figure out what the benefit to him was, having both? I assume it was someone else could drive the other car at the same time? Big risk just to save money on separate insurance and tax. Unless he was planning on selling one, or one was stolen and then plates changed.

Yeah I was wondering.

Either have two identical cars to drive concurrently or tax and insure a 1.6 and put false plates on a gti or something.

Seve OB

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

I suppose technically both cars would be insured once they both had same plate on that matched that of the cert of insurance.

Well technically one of the cars had false plates on it

pea be

Rumour has it that a quarry owner near here had a similar setup many years ago with 3 lorries on the same number plate, but only one tax, psv and insurance. Each driver had a given road they had to take at the crossroads outside the quarry so more than one lorry would not be in the same direction at the same time.

I heard this at a wake years ago.... so it must be true!!

Under His Eye

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Separate case maybe?

Does the DVLA NI share a database with the DVLA UK?

They are all the one these days, DVNI was absorbed into the DVLA.

mikeecho

perhaps, the other car that was parked up on private property, had the false plates.

it wasn't being used in a public place (that could be proven)
so technically no offence was disclosed.

there's nothing illegal about putting false plates on a car on private property.

Pique

mikeecho wrote: »

perhaps, the other car that was parked up on private property,  had the false plates.

it wasn't being used in a public place (that could be proven)
so technically no offence was disclosed.

there's nothing illegal about putting false plates on a car on private property.

But it seems the opposite was the case.

The garda told the court that he had noted the chassis number of the vehicle that Craig had been driving and there was no record of it anywhere, including in the North.

mickdw

No penalty for scumbags in this country.
As the article said, he was driving the dodgy one so no debate but that it was fraudulent.
Car should be crushed, driver reported to his insurance company and given all points and fines associated with driving without tax insurance or test.

Markcheese

I hope they did take the illegal car off him... Seems like he got off very lightly...

jelutong

Two cars taxed and insured for the price of one. It was a well known scam in the haulage business years ago. One truck in Ireland another one the Continent for example.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Markcheese wrote: »

I hope they did take the illegal car off him... Seems like he got off very lightly...

Most likely the car was seized and he would have to prove ownership before he could get it back and as the car was not to be found on any database then him proving its his would be difficult and the car would ultimately be crushed/destroyed after a certain period of time.

Isambard

years ago my employer had two vans with the same reg, genuine error somewhere. We used to load right by the Gard Barracks in McCurtain St Cork and one morning a Gard queried it. Someone told him they were twins and he nodded and walked off.

kaizersoze

Donegal....nuff said.