Uninsured Drivers and the Movement to Promote Car Insurance
Word has it that auto drivers who apparently have lapse in their car insurance can have their vehicles confiscated when seen on the run. Ministers are currently on that issue. It is said that come April 2009, such vehicles will be confiscated. Unless, of course, owners of the vehicle will renew the insurance or opt to keep their vehicles out of the road. These are the only available options. If the government will start confiscating vehicles with lapses on their insurance, it is said that over a hundred thousand vehicles will be affected. This move, according to the ministers, is that of insuring a safer ride for all.
Uninsured motorists may cause a lot of hassle to other motorists in case of collisions. Motorists who are uninsured are considered by the ministers as anti-social. Apart from this, they are said to be a risk to other road users for if collision happens, no insurance company will take care of the expenses collisions call for. If all motorists are insured, it will not take so much time to go on with the daily routine even after a slight collision happens. In such cases, one only has to contact the insurance company and let it handle the repair and damage costs. According to statistics, around 5.7 percent of motorists are uninsured. This roughly translates to two million people.
Last year, an average of 112,000 vehicles were seized and around thousands ended up being crushed. Police officers with number plate recognition cameras are the ones that are given the responsibility to check on the vehicle’s information as well as to identify its owner and countercheck with the information stored on an insurance database. This will ensure that vehicles will not be pulled over at random. When a vehicle gets pulled over, it means that the information on the insurance database states that the vehicle’s insurance has lapsed. This campaign, however, will be put up once the information on the insurance database has been compared against the information that the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency or DVLA in Swansea.
Source: telegraph.co.uk
