The UK Insurance Blog

I’ve just been reading an article on the Huddersfield Daily Examiner that claims that one in five of the vehicles driving around their area is uninsured. Incredibly, it then goes on to claim that in the BD3 district of Bradford an unbelievable 57% of vehicles is uninsured.

Now I don’t know if their figures are accurate, they come from The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Authority, which is a public body comprising 22 councillors from the areas around Leeds & Bradford. With their stated aim being “To be the driving force co-ordinating the provision and development of high-quality public transport services for everybody within West Yorkshire”, they’ve certainly got an agenda to disuade people from using their cars but I would still imagine that they wouldn’t come out with such statistics if they weren’t accurate.

What’s mystifying me is that when I watch “Road Wars” on Sky telly, the police cars are all equipped with fancy cameras that read number plates and then check with databases somewhere to ensure that the vehicle is taxed and insured. Presumably, police cars throughout the country are equipped with the same high tech equipment so why are so many people being allowed to drive around uninsured?.

I’ve seen the Sky TV cops seize and crush a car before now, but can’t remember what offense the perpetrators had committed. If the police were to seize and crush every uninsured car being driven on our roads then the country would be a better place to live in. And whilst they’re driving around checking for uninsured vehicles they could enforce another law that’s totally ignored, they could arrest and disqualify people using mobile phones whilst driving !!.

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