Uninsured Drivers

[Kickstart]

Hi

Just seen this:-

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4295834.stm

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[m99dws]

If your vehicle is taxed, tested and insured you have nothing to worry about. If it isn't, it shouldn't be on the road.

I don't see an issue with that report?

[0ddball]

A whole £60 fine That will really hit them where it hurts.

Looks like the rest of us insurance paying citizens will get off lightly with a 'fine' of only several hundred.
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[iCraig]

So that means if you say own a vehicle that your doing up and is declared off road and SORN'd yet not insured you could get fined on it?

[innominate]

[m99dws]

[Walloper]

Kickstart
You r a divvy
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[Bendy]

The main problem I can see is that it doesn't seem to allow for a vehicle to be uninsured but not SORN.

Say your insurance runs out and you're going to wait a couple of months to renew it cos it's winter and you're not going to use the bike much. But your tax is valid and there's no point cancelling that and declaring it SORN, you'd get so little money back that you can't be bothered.

The computer will go 'uninsured vehicle on the road - panic panic' when actually it's just in your garage for a bit.

[Walloper]

Declare it not being used then, if the money is not so important.
I think if an uninsured loser hits me I'm going to be more pissed off than if I lose £40 road fund.
I don't believe some of you folks.
What do you want to bleat about now?
'The roads surface is to grippy at corners where the council put a textured coating down'.
God
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[Kickstart]

[Kickstart]

[Bendy]

[Walloper]

[biggerjohn]

Problem with the system is the fines are too small. I pay £300 to insure my car 300 / 60 =5 so I would have to get caught and fined 5 times to have the fines cost me more than insurance and I have a relatively cheep car to insure how many 17 year olds with £500+ premiums is there really going to stop driving without insurance?


Sadly Bendys is spot on this is only to make money out of people not to stop uninsured drivers on the road.

If the government really wanted to stop speeding any time some one went past a speed camera over the limit impose a harsh penalty crushing the car and banning the driver from for a year would stop speeding but it wouldn’t make money and would very quickly be the most scrutinised piece of safety legislation ever passed and under that sort of scrutiny the reality that “speed kills” is complete crap would kill cameras so instead they will continue revenue collection from motorist and claim it is all for safety reasons.

[Bendy]

[Walloper]

Fck-off the lot of you.
If you cant afford to pay then don't play.
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[jaffa]

As someone mentioned above the primary motivation here isn't to stop people driving without insurance its about raising revenue. The way these things are implemented catches people out who aren't really breaking the law whereas the hardcore scumbag simply doesn't even register the car/bike in his name and avoids prosecution.

This summer I went abroad working, the trip was extended for an additional month and I came back to a fine for not taxing my car (or declaring SORN) bespite trying to do it by phone and online while I was aborad, I didn't have the right documents with me.

Earlier this year I was 'caught' for speeding, £40 fine and 3 points, I was doing 34 in a 30 zone at 11:30pm.

I really dont think the examples above are what people are thinking when they're voting for a government that is promising to crack down on crime, its actually a cynical piss-take and along with more than 100 brand new (or increased) taxes in the last 8 years its just another way to steal my money.
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[Bendy]

[Walloper]

You paranoid bunch of hypocrites.
It wouldn't be that if one of your 'un-insured charges' rams you and he can't pay.
Wise Up FFS
Oh like a government that spends billions of £££s on lots of stuff is going to 'flush' the bank account with the revenue from un-insured drivers.
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[Adam_P]

I think the main problem is that the people driving without insurance are going to be literally laughing all the way to the bank.

Costs me just over 200 quid to insure my car for the year. So I could basically not bother and then only have to pay 60 quid if I got caught...???

Not really an incentive to make people stop, is it?

It's a 1000 quid fine for not having a TV license FFS!!!!
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[Walloper]

[Walloper]

I pay £700 for a bike £550 for a car.
Yes I'm laughing too.
Wanna know about my hoose and personal possessions?
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[Bendy]

[Kickstart]