Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.

want' there a recent clamp-down on this announced - or was this just in Hackney - recall a lot of cars being removed from the road or something..

hmmmm, i could only find this from Oct 2011,

Over 20 cars seized in Hackney

(that's 11%!!)

was under the impression that the digital cameras with number plate recognition would have solved this problem - is there some reluctance on the part of police / the authorities to get this going on?!!

Camera based enforcement only works if the registered keeper of the vehicle is accurate.

If you never send off the V5 then all the enforcement notices go to the old owner, who if they did not get the details of the new owner will effectively provide a dead end for said letters.

That's assuming that the seller even passed the V5 on- when a car changes hands for a couple of hundred quid in a car park and the new owner has no intention of taxing, MOT'ing or insuring said car then enforcement that relies on the owner supplying an up to date address is on a hiding to nothing.

This sort of thing needs actual traffic police- fucking loads of them.