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Wed 01 Jan 2008UK write-offs being sold here
UK-registered cars written off as dangerous and classed as not roadworthy following crashes have been sold to motorists in Ireland and have reappeared on Irish roads, a new report has found.
The report, by Cartell.ie, a private company that allows
prospective car purchasers to check the history of a secondhand
vehicle before buying it, has found that some UK cars that were
sold and later re-registered in Ireland were listed as being
written off on the British vehicle register.
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