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Laura Hartson
Articlesbase
July 15, 2011
Author: Laura Hartson
Uninsured cars are the bane of our lives on the roads in the UK, but it seems that if new legislation gets passed then the DVLA will have new powers to destroy the vehicles of people who are constantly flouting the rules.
DVLA staff will be able to destroy uninsured vehicles whether they are parked on private property to follow new laws that state that a car must be insured or declared off the road.
Mike Penning, the road safety minister said: "Uninsured drivers injure 23,000 people each year and add £30 to every responsible motorist's premium so we need to do everything we can to keep them off the roads. These new powers will help us to take targeted action while freeing up police time to deal with the hard core of offenders."
The DVLA will work with the Motor Insurers Bureau to target suspect offenders, and they will then be sent a letter to tell them that their vehicle is uninsured. If no action is taken by the owner then a one hundred pound fine will be implemented, and if the vehicle remains uninsured then it will be clamped, seized or crushed depending on the time that the offender has carried on flouting the law. The driver will have to provide a proof of insurance should they want the vehicle back before it is released, if it hasn't already been crushed.
The current concern is that although courts can give out penalties of over five thousand pounds, the average penalty for not insuring a vehicle is two hundred pounds, which is cheaper than insuring the car in the first place. Statistics show that the average premium for someone in the seventeen to twenty year bracket is over two thousand pounds, which is a fee that is very expensive to drivers.
Three million drivers are thought to be on the roads without insurance, and it is estimated than in accidents, one in six of these are uninsured and leave the scene of the crime, meaning that innocent motorists are having to shoulder the cost of repairing their cars and losing their No Claims Bonus.
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