A crushing time for the uninsured

Police across the country are making use of powers and technology to stop, seize and crush uninsured cars.

With uninsured drivers accidents thought to be adding about £30 to every honest drivers premiums, and leading to on average of a 160 people killed a year in crashes with them, it’s easy to see that this is one of the biggest motoring problems in the UK

So police working in conjuncture with the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB), who run the Motor Insurance Database, a record of cover details for every vehicle in the country, and using the latest number-plate recognition cameras they have impounded over 100,000 vehicles with no cover in 2007. And with over 1 million regular drivers without insurance still on the road that number is set to increase.

In 2009, the section in the Road Safety Act 2006 that makes it an offence to own a car without insurance, comes into force. This will allow the police to seize vehicles when they are not being driven even if they are parked off the road and that haven’t been declared off the road to the DVLA.

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