Car News recent articles in category Car Crime
-
Garda Tweet - 'Driver is toast now'
Driver is toast Gardaí stopped a car in Skerries, County Dublin during the week with no rear tyre! Not only did the guards discover this extremely dangerous vehicle being driven by this reckless motorist but they also discover a number of other traffic offences. After pulling the car over for the bazaar traffic offence of not having a rear tyre,...
-
Canadian Cop Tries To Give Car Made Of Snow A Parking Ticket
Car made of snow almost gets a parking ticket! We all know cops like to do their job and enjoy giving out parking tickets but the one Canada cop took his job to a new level of commitment. Getting a parking ticket can be is frustrating of course but imagine a car literally made out of snow getting a ticket....
-
People who make false car insurance claims must be prosecuted according to former judge
An ex-Judge has hit out at insurance fraudsters saying that anyone who makes false claims should be prosecuted. Insurance fraudsters are making false car insurance claims are getting away with it. The reason they are getting away with it is that they are not being prosecuted by the court's system, the leading judge said. Nicholas Kearns who is the former...
-
Bus driver arrested at Garda checkpoint on M1 motorway with passengers on board
A bus driver was arrested on Saturday morning at a garda checkpoint on the M1 motorway with passengers on board Gardai carried out a Mandatory Intoxicant Checkpoint on the M1 motorway between Swords and Balbriggan on Saturday morning. Unusually, when the bus approached the checkpoint it was pulled over even though it was carrying passengers. The driver may not have...
-
Dundalk Dealership offers €3k reward for information on stolen Audi A4
Dundalk car dealer offers €3k reward Brazen thieves stole an Audi A4 in broad daylight from a dealership in County Louth on Friday. The audacious theft was captured on CCTV at Gerry Cumiskey's Volkswagen dealership at Dundalk Retail park around 2.20pm on Friday, December 8. The thieves drove straight out of the dealership with the high-end vehicle. The registration of...
-
French tyre-slasher busted for slashing tyres on over 6,000 cars
French tyre-slasher busted for slashing tyres on over 6,000 cars After years of playing cat-and-mouse with French police, a brazen tyre slasher who punctured the tyres of thousands of cars around the south-western French city of Bordeaux has finally been caught. The 45-year-old man was arrested last week after a six-year campaign of vandalism. He planned his tyre puncture trips...
-
UK Police say defrosting your windscreen may invalidate your car insurance
UK police have said that drivers should take care when defrosting their windscreen as their car insurance premiums could be invalidated if they do not clear their windscreens fully of any ice and snow. They suggest that it is worth taking time when defrosting the windscreen on your car since a poorly cleared windscreen could possible trigger fines as well....
-
Car Clocking in Ireland
Car Clocking MyVehicle.ie has mentioned in previous posts that as many as 1 in 10 cars in Ireland may be clocked. We can also view it this way, if the UK figures for clocking were transposed to the Irish fleet then the number of vehicles on false mileages could be as high as 160,000 and the cost could exceed €40m...
-
10% of UK car imports are clocked
As many as 10% of second hand cars imported from the UK have had their odometers doctored and mileage readings reduced. As many motorists will know, this practice is called clocking. The number of UK car imports has been steadily increasing year on year in the last couple of decades. from 2000 to 2008 with 33,000 being brought in last...
-
The European Union is calling for an EU-wide database on clocked vehicles and cross-border deal to ease the crisis
The European Union is calling for an EU-wide database on clocked vehicles and cross-border deal to ease the crisis A wider clampdown is being demanded across the European Union to counteract the growing problem of car clocking. Despite NCT checks mileage is being altered on as much as 20 percent of UK imports. Due to the increasing number of clocked...