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The name of the new agency was confirmed as the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) on 28 November 2013. [2] The DSA was abolished on 31 March 2014, and the DVSA took over its responsibilities on 1 April 2014.
The name of the new agency was confirmed as the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) on 28 November 2013. [4] VOSA was abolished on 31 March 2014, and its responsibilities passed to the DVSA on 1 April 2014.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is an executive agency of the UK Department for Transport (DfT).. It carries out driving tests, approves people to be driving instructors and MOT testers, carries out tests to make sure lorries and buses are safe to drive, [2] carries out roadside checks on drivers and vehicles, and monitors vehicle recalls.
Victims who bought cars and vans with clocked mileage say they feel "mugged off" by the fraudsters who wound back a total of 2,000,000 miles off vehicle odometers. Ryan Regan, Thomas Hamilton and ...
Approved Driving Instructor (or ADI) is a UK term for a trainer of car driving who has been tested and registered by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). UK law requires driving instructors to be qualified before they can charge for their services.
One such driver, Jose Luis Lopez Perez, died after a swoop and squat crash, [1] [2] leading to an investigation which revealed the extent of this fraud. In 2011, a group of seven people in North and South Carolina were arrested for allegedly stealing over $100,000 through staged crash schemes.
Odometer fraud, also referred to as "busting miles" (United States) or "clocking" (UK, Ireland and Canada), is the illegal practice of rolling back odometers to make it appear that vehicles have lower mileage than they actually do. Odometer fraud occurs when the seller of a vehicle falsely represents the actual mileage of a vehicle to the buyer.
In law, fraud is an intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right. Fraud can violate civil law or criminal law, or it may cause no loss of money, property, or legal right but still be an element of another civil or criminal wrong. [1]