Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Search and destroy – uninsured vehicles
It would be nice to have a spare £5000 wouldn’t it? Yes it would – and that’s why the maximum fine for driving without insurance is £5000 and six to eight penalty points too.
The hope is that this will deter motorists from getting behind the wheel without insurance – but amazingly 242,000 uninsured drivers are caught and convicted every year in the UK.
In a bid to reduce this number and lower the cost of annual premiums on car insurance for honest drivers, ministers are giving power to the DVLA which will allow them to clamp, seize and potentially crush any uninsured vehicles they find – even if they’re not being driven at the time.This scheme, which comes into effect in June this year, will not affect people with Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN) for their car and is purely in place to make being uninsured a harder offence to get away with.
The road safety minister stated, “Uninsured drivers injure 23,000 people each year and add £30 to every responsible motorist’s premium so we need to do everything we can to keep them off the roads.”
So – as well as being able to look forward to the sun and warmth of the summer months – in June we could also look forward to a reduction in car insurance prices.
Fingers crossed everyone!
Image by John Picken via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car insurance, DVLA, motorists, penalty points, premium, SORN, uninsured
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posted by Fuse @ 8:48 AM 
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