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Immobilization of Unattended Vehicles

6th July 1940, Page 31
6th July 1940
Page 31
Page 31, 6th July 1940 — Immobilization of Unattended Vehicles
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AN Order has been made by the Minister of Home Security requiring drivers of motor vehicle S who leave their vehicles unattended to take steps to render them temporarily incapable

of being driven away. A vehicle is .regarded as unattended unless there be a person of 14 years of age or over in attendance upon it, either in the vehicle or in the immediate vicinity and within sight of it. It is not permissible for one person to look after more than one vehicle. Hy day it will be sufficient if the ignition key be removed and the vehicle locked, so as to prevent access to the driver's seat. When it is not practicable to comply with both these requirements, then (a) part of the mechanism must be removed, or (b) a locking device must be applied to the mechanism, the steering wheel, or a road wheel, or (c) the vehicle must be put hi a locked garage or yard.

By night (after lighting-up time) more -7.1-iiigent precautions are required, however short the time during which the vehicle is left unattended. The ignition key must he removed and the doors locked (where this is practicable) and, in addition, if the vehicle be left outside, part of the mechanism must be removed or a locking device applied, or the vehicle must be in a locked garage or yard.

Special provision is made for rounds. men delivering or collecting goods. A roundsman may leave his van unattended by day for not more than five minutes, but, if practicable, he must either remove the ignition key or lock the doors. If he should leave the vehicle for more than five minutes, the full precautions must be taken. .

The duty of seeing that the provisions of the Order are complied with is placed upon the owner of the vehicle,, or, %%lien he is not driving, upon the person, whom he has authorized to drive it. In the case of vehicles left in a private or public garage, the responsibility falls on the occupier of the garage, whether or not he be the ownei of the vehicle.

A police constable or a member ol the Forces, including Local Defence Volunteers, may inspect or examine any unattended vehicle, and, if the Order has not been complied with, he may take any reasonable steps to render it incapable of being driven away.

The Order involves an amendment to the instructions which have been issued in regard to traffic on an air-raid warning. Drivers are, at present advised to leave their vehicles unlocked if they leave them to take shelter. In future, it will be obligatory under the Order to lock any vehicle which is capable of being locked, or otherwise to immobilize it,

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