Thread: Car written off £80 FIne

In February 2007 my husband wrote his car off following an accident. I completed the relevant paperwork with the scrap dealers and posted my self to the DVLA. We received a tax reminder in March 2007 which I forwarded to the scrapdealers and never thought anymore about the issue. We moved from the property in May 2007 and eventually settled in a new house in November 2007. In September 2008 a letter was forwarded to us notifying us that we had failed to update the sorn and were being fined. I contacted the dVLA via fax as I had another issue with my driving licence, which they had made an error with. I re iterated that the car had been scrapped in February of the previous year.

We didnt hear any more until we received a letter from a Debt recovery Agency stating we now had an £80 fine. I wrote to the DVLA complaing and received a standard response ' we cannot find any correspondence , that it was our responsibility to ensure they had received the paperwork and basically the fine stands. They also said that the car was declared soRN in may 2007. 2 months after we scrapped it. what do we do now, we never received any correspondance from they mainly because we had moved from the address and although we had mail redirection in place for 6 months, nothing was received at this time, and the only reason we got anything was a previous neighbour had been given post which they forwarded to us.

what do we do now, we completed all the correct paperwork, and cannot get any where with the DVLA.

help please

Hi, lulu. This is something that you have to be willing to stand firm on. Write to the DVLA and inform them that you informed them of the sale of the vehicle at the time, thus fulfilling your obligations regarding notifying change of keeper. Say that if they will not consider the matter closed, you deny any liability and you would prefer this matter be decided by Court, and request a Court appearance. Inform the DCA that the matter is in dispute.