Prime Time tonight - UK write-offs on Irish roads

Atlantic Dawn

Think this is almost an annual event for RTE, Prime Time have a show tonight about written off UK cars being imported in to Ireland. Funny thing is Ireland has no official shared write-off database so actual Irish written off cars could be an even bigger problem.

The analysis, seen by Prime Time, was carried out by cross referencing the Vehicle Identification Numbers (VIN) of ex-UK cars registered here with the VINs in a database of written-off vehicles sold at UK salvage auctions.

MotorCheck's Shane Teskey told Prime Time: "We decided to take that database of three and a half million vehicles and cross reference every VIN number that's been imported into Ireland from the UK to see could any of those vehicles have made it across the water.

"We'll incorporate the history in the UK all the way along its ownership there and into Ireland. And that's why, when we ran that cross reference that those 36,000 cars emerged in a way that they haven't been seen before."

https://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/2022/0419/1293153-tens-of-thousands-of-uk-write-offs-on-irish-roads/

AMKC

Maybe a mod can move my thread into this thread or vise versa?