In November, my blue Metro car broke down. As the repair would have cost hundreds of pounds, I parked it on the drive outside my house.

I received the renewal notice for the tax and forgot to fill in the Statutory Off-Road Notification form, which you are required to do by law. The insurance and tax had also run out.

Several weeks later, I received a letter from the DVLA at Swansea telling me that I had broken the law.

I had to pay a penalty of £25 as I had forgotten to fill in and send off the form declaring that the vehicle was off the road.

I had no alternative but to pay, as I would have been fined more had I not done so.

Why are the owners of dumped cars not affected by this rule?

Several cars have been abandoned near my home, with registration numbers, so they are traceable.

In Sainsbury's car park in Kidlington, a car has been there for months. I wonder if the owner has been fined £25?

My car was not doing any harm and certainly not taking up a parking space on a supermarket car park. As usual, some people get away with murder, but that's another issue.

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