Interesting scene in Alma Vale Road, Clifton, one foggy December morning: a DVLA-clamped car.
Nothing unusual people think -we've seen them before. Which is true, but what is interesting here is that this is not a UK car. Looks like an Italian or Spanish plate, left hand drive.
Either it isn't up to date with respect to its homeland's taxes, or the DVLA have clamped it on the belief that it has not been back to the homeland within the last six months or whatever. If it's the latter: how can they tell? You'd need ANPR number plate logging at every port of entry/exit to the country, and some way for a DVLA clamping van to enter the registration number (again, ANPR without human intervention? ) into some database lookup that scans through all that data and says whether or not this car passed through any of the ports in the last six months.
Interesting indeed...
Either that, or they have cocked up somehow, and got confused between that car and a similar British registration. It's happened before: I know of a museum which received a speeding fine for one of their vintage car exhibits, because of a Belgian car with the same registration.
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