Doesn’t help when insurance companies keep putting the prices up every year. I still pay insurance because the cost of crashing isn’t worth not having it. But insurance companies need to be better regulated they can just say “hey it’s £100 more this year just because we decided”
No-one_here_cares on
I think the roads are getting more dangerous in the UK. That article also mentions people who cannot afford or have not taken a driving test.
seany1212 on
There needs to be a complete overhaul of the car insurance system. There are so many stories of outsourced vehicle repairs or courtesy cars that rack up astronomical prices which then drag the drivers into the legal battle they’re paying the insurers for in the first place.
dvb70 on
This kind of makes you wonder how many uninsured drivers are not being caught. Enforcement of anything road traffic related seems almost non existent so it makes me think 160,000 may be a drop in the ocean.
cennep44 on
>Hot spot areas include Birmingham, which has five out of the top 15 postcodes in the UK for accidents involving uninsured drivers.
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>In one police operation earlier this month, West Midlands Police took 16 vehicles off the road for being uninsured – including a Lamborghini.
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>Hayley Sutcliffe, from the MIB, said: “It’s a diverse area so people coming into the country might not know the laws and the legislation of the Road Traffic Act.
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>”We need to raise awareness around when people need to have the correct level of cover of insurance.”
I’m guessing they know very well but just don’t care?
It would help if fines were equal to or greater than the premium they should have paid, then there would be more of a deterrent factor.
m1bnk on
Insurance costs are mental in the UK compared to EU. I can absolutely understand risking a 300 quid fine in the face of a 3 grand quote
TheCookieButter on
Adjacent, but there is a house down the road that has two very different cars with the exact same custom license plate. Out of curiosity I popped it into the DVLA and it doesn’t come up as registered to any vehicle, nor does it look like one you’d be allowed.
As far as I can tell, if they hit somebody and ran off there would be no way of claiming on their insurance.
UpsetKoalaBear on
There’s a presumption that we have some of the better drivers in the world (is sometimes true when you go to other countries).
However, I wonder how much of that is because both parties get fucked by insurance in an accident, not just the one that caused it.
Mr-Smegalot on
Can’t say i’m surprised. The chances of getting caught are so low i suspect most will run the risk, same as expired MOTs or no tax.
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Doesn’t help when insurance companies keep putting the prices up every year. I still pay insurance because the cost of crashing isn’t worth not having it. But insurance companies need to be better regulated they can just say “hey it’s £100 more this year just because we decided”
I think the roads are getting more dangerous in the UK. That article also mentions people who cannot afford or have not taken a driving test.
There needs to be a complete overhaul of the car insurance system. There are so many stories of outsourced vehicle repairs or courtesy cars that rack up astronomical prices which then drag the drivers into the legal battle they’re paying the insurers for in the first place.
This kind of makes you wonder how many uninsured drivers are not being caught. Enforcement of anything road traffic related seems almost non existent so it makes me think 160,000 may be a drop in the ocean.
>Hot spot areas include Birmingham, which has five out of the top 15 postcodes in the UK for accidents involving uninsured drivers.
>
>In one police operation earlier this month, West Midlands Police took 16 vehicles off the road for being uninsured – including a Lamborghini.
>
>Hayley Sutcliffe, from the MIB, said: “It’s a diverse area so people coming into the country might not know the laws and the legislation of the Road Traffic Act.
>
>”We need to raise awareness around when people need to have the correct level of cover of insurance.”
I’m guessing they know very well but just don’t care?
It would help if fines were equal to or greater than the premium they should have paid, then there would be more of a deterrent factor.
Insurance costs are mental in the UK compared to EU. I can absolutely understand risking a 300 quid fine in the face of a 3 grand quote
Adjacent, but there is a house down the road that has two very different cars with the exact same custom license plate. Out of curiosity I popped it into the DVLA and it doesn’t come up as registered to any vehicle, nor does it look like one you’d be allowed.
As far as I can tell, if they hit somebody and ran off there would be no way of claiming on their insurance.
There’s a presumption that we have some of the better drivers in the world (is sometimes true when you go to other countries).
However, I wonder how much of that is because both parties get fucked by insurance in an accident, not just the one that caused it.
Can’t say i’m surprised. The chances of getting caught are so low i suspect most will run the risk, same as expired MOTs or no tax.