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This case involved an unroadworthy car sold by a dealer to the finance company to the debtor on hire purchase.

Over-crowded and unroadworthy vans serve as buses in Kinshasa.

' If the police say my vehicle is unroadworthy then I'll accept that, but then we still need somewhere to live.'

Along with new legislation, the government has instituted a 7-year recapitalization scheme to replace the old and unroadworthy vehicles with new 18- and 35-seater minibuses.

Each video included several long car chases, interspersed with groups of shorter clips relating to a common theme such as unroadworthy vehicles or dangerous overtaking manoeuvres.

Some, they said had been declared unroadworthy by the Department of Transport who'd then banned then from the roads and others were needed as evidence of alleged offences.

The letter continued:' According to the officer, Mr. Docherty had been directed to use unroadworthy vehicles belonging to his employers, RT Transport.

Properly repaired and carefully inspected, the vehicles may be good - but an improper repair after a serious accident may leave the vehicle frame, body or key electrical and mechanical systems in damaged or unroadworthy condition.

They have limited powers to direct traffic and place road signs, close lanes of an active motorway, and stop vehicles if they believe them to be unroadworthy for the road and condition they are driving in.

In England, the public interest is solely protected by the criminal law where s75 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 makes it a strict liability offence to sell an unroadworthy vehicle, irrespective of the nature of the sales transaction.

Speeding, drivers' hours and records offences, overloading, keeping an unroadworthy vehicle, forgery, unlawfully using a vehicle, even contravention of parking restrictions and prohibitions, all count against a haulier seeking an 0 licence, and this is not an exhaustive list.

It was cancelled when major weaknesses in the car design were revealed by testing at the Motor Industry Research Association test track, subjected to the same tests as a conventional car, the suspension eventually broke and the car was claimed to be unroadworthy.

Operation Paget claimed that the white Fiat Uno he owned was in an unroadworthy condition, being nine years old at the time with 370,000 km on the clock (suggesting that the little car had been driven 27,000 miles per annum) and had not been maintained for several years before the death of Diana.