Uninsured Drivers - More Evidence
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008There’s an article on the Sky News website discussing an AA report on the increase in uninsured drivers. It seems that the total number of cars seized by the police because of no insurance rose from 78,000 in 2006 to 150,000 in 2007, with 40% of cars seized not reclaimed.
Maybe, just maybe the police with their car mounted cameras are winning the battle but there still seems to be big loopholes for the criminals to avoid buying insurance. Apart from the ‘Chancers’ who just hope that they don’t get caught, there are at least two other common groups.
The first are the people that either don’t register their vehicle, or register it at a fictitious address. These people get away with thousands of pounds worth of parking fines and congestion charge payments but they won’t gat away with driving without insurance if they get caught by a police camera car.
It seems that another dodge is to put foreign number plates on your car. The police computer doesn’t keep a record of foreign registered vehicles in use on UK roads, so people driving on foreign plates are not likely to be caught. Next time you see a right hand drive car with foreign plates ask yourself how that could happen, since we’re about the only country left that drives on the “proper” side of the road. Let’s hope that the police have a similar thought and hopefully a swift purge will sort out a few of these criminals.
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