Monday, June 25, 2012
Ignorance of the law can be rather crushing
How any person can grow up in Britain today unaware that car insurance is a must for any driver is beyond me.
Yet, according to Motor Insurers Bureau (MIB) data, as many as one in ten young drivers is apparently ignorant of the legal requirement for motor insurance.How this can happen when car insurers are among the most prolific television advertisers makes the situation particularly baffling. Hardly an ad break goes by these days without some insurer or comparison website loudly trumping its claims. Who knows, perhaps those young drivers who are out of the loop are all watching the BBC. Perhaps they don’t even have televisions!
Well, here at Hoot we don’t advertise, but that’s only because we trust you to find us and don’t want to waste money on ‘bigging ourselves up’ only to have to reduce the quality of our service in order to fund our posturing.
As for uninsured drivers, they’re in for a torrid time in South Yorkshire, where police are now engaged in a serious crackdown which involves shaming drivers by displaying their vehicles and then, if they subsequently fail to take heed and buy insurance, crushing them within 14 days.
Photo © dave_7 via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: car insurance, MIB, Motor Insurers Bureau, uninsured drivers, young drivers
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posted by Fuse @ 1:05 AM 
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