Uninsured cars...your views

Kazz · 02-05-2006, 09:59 PM

Well watching a programme on BBC1 and Hampshire traffic police have in the last year siezed 1,400 cars with no insurance. If you have no insurance it appears the same people/drivers normally have no MOT and it appears from the programme no licence, and have never transfered ownership or cannot prove ownership.

They tell people they need to pay £105 plus £12 a day storage and produce within 7 days valid insurance, MOT, and licence.

they take the car away straight away. They are not just issued with a producer which means to produce documents within 7 days.

The message "drive legally" or don't drive at all. The drivers are also taken to court, fined and possibly given points on their lience or banned from driving and their car crushed if they have signed over the vechicle to the police. They are then crushed.

I think its a fab idea. Get the unisured/none legal drivers off the road..... what do you think?

Karen

Moli · 02-05-2006, 10:02 PM

Totally agree with it Kazz, why should they get away with it, when we have to pay insurance for our cars...

Mags · 02-05-2006, 10:09 PM

I don't drive but I totally agree with it too.........if they can't afford the insurance etc they shouldn't be on the road...

Kazz · 02-05-2006, 10:11 PM

According to one of the policemen the sort of drivers who have no insurance are normaly the people who run away from the scene of accidents.

Moli · 02-05-2006, 10:14 PM

Its frightening, but there are an awful lot of uninsured drivers out there, and loads without road tax....

Kim · 02-05-2006, 10:31 PM

Totally agree Kazz. Several years ago a drunk driver hit the car my mum was driving with me as the passenger. Thankfully no serious injuries to us, he definitely came off worse. Our car was a write-off and guess what - he had no insurance, so dad had to claim on his own. It's just not fair - he was driving on our side of the road!

Fran · 02-05-2006, 11:08 PM

I'm in favour of any measures which will eliminate uninsured/untaxed/unlicenced drivers on the road

dinahsmum · 03-05-2006, 09:05 AM

There's an enormous co-relation between untaxed/uninsured vehicles and other (arguably - but not if you're in an accident with an uninsured driver - more serious crime) I'm all for crackdowns.
I thought that one of the functions of the plethora of surveillance cameras was to scan number plates and check that vehicles are taxed? All that's then required is for someone to enforce.
PS - I think crushing to a cube is great - I think the miscreants should be made to press the button and watch!

yola · 03-05-2006, 09:42 AM

Fantastic idea! This type of 'minor' crime is becoming epidemic and needs to be stood on asap as those of us who abide by the law end up paying for it through insurance hikes etc etc.

As DM rightly says, there is a direct correlation between this type of offence and more serious crimes and it just demonstrates what a 'couldn't give a stuff' environment we live in today

Donna · 03-05-2006, 11:56 AM

I hate the thought of people not paying up for insurance etc. I have to, so so should they.

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