Registration papers of totalled cars to be invalid immediately
THE LAND Transport Department will issue a regulation under which registration books for totalled vehicles will automatically lose their validity.
At a meeting yesterday, relevant authorities agreed that they needed to step up measures to prevent registration books of totally wrecked cars from being used for stolen automobiles.
This misuse has been detected recently, prompting the department to suspend the registration papers of some 500 cars already.
Many people have been duped into buying stolen cars with these apparently legitimate official papers.
“We have to find a sustainable solution to these problems,” deputy national police commissioner Pol General Somyot Poompanmoung said yesterday in his capacity as chief of the centre tasked with suppressing the theft of automobiles.
He said the Office of the Insurance Commission was also expected to tighten rules on the disposal of totalled vehicles.
“Those buying wrecked vehicles for recycling also need to alert the Land Transport Department,” Somyot said, adding that people who have been duped into buying stolen vehicles can call 1192 for help and advice. He said the Office of the Consumer Protection Board was also ready to help.
