£100 fine for uninsured drivers the AA grumpy column

Post by **pantoandy** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:05 am

good morning the sun is shining over grumpy towers and i,m back bashing away at the keyboard to bring you another tasty morsel to chew over.

the latest government think tank idea is this one which gives uninsured drivers nowhere to hide so they say ...

Motorists owning an uninsured car will be fined £100 - even if they never drive it.

The new offence - part of a raft of government measures aimed at cracking down on uninsured drivers - will be punished with a £100 fine.

Uninsured driving adds about £30 a year to every motorists' insurance premium, amounting to more than £400million a year.

Road safety minister Paul Clark said last night: "Each year uninsured and untraced drivers kill 160 people and injure 23,000.

"But these tough new measures will catch anyone who is keeping an uninsured vehicle, leaving them with nowhere to hide."

Motorists will receive a letter warning them they will be fined unless they insure their vehicle. If the vehicle remains uninsured it could then be seized and destroyed - regardless of whether the fine has been paid.

£100 fine for uninsured drivers - Exclusive - mirror.co.uk

AAG

now im in two minds about this has the government really thought this one out ?

im all in favour of clobbering those who drive on our roads uninsured because its you me and every decent law abiding driver who pay for their tax mot and insurance who subsidises these uninsured rat bags.

but a £100 fine for someone who has a car sat on their drive that never moves

it may be broken down or a restoreable classic or waiting for the scrap man

it seem just another stealth tax introduced by the back door by labour greedy for the treasurey coffers unless you declare sorn and then does it still have to be insured or would the vehicle be exempt ?.

i dont think this goes far enough for drivers who take to the road without insurance .

those who drive without tax test or insurance on our roads should be heavily punished for it by the courts as this is as serious as drink driving.

this should also apply to number of foreign registration vehicles which we now have which could potentialy be driving british roads untested and uninsured which the police do not seem to tackle for fear of them playing the racial card.

these measures must apply to both sides british and foreign .

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:48 am

This is complete bollocks. Instead of hammering the guy who's got a car off the road waiting to get it through it's MOT, just raise the penalties for the arsse-wipes caught driving with no Insurence.

There is just no excuse. In my life-time, I have been fortuante enough to have lots of money but there has been times when we have been very hard up. The priority was always to get the car Insured.

Some idiot hit my husbands car a few years back and the car was a write off. The woman had no Insurence yet in court was fined and not even banned from driving, yet she put us off the road for weeks.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:14 am

You didn't expect joined up thinking from new labour did you?

moonpie · Post by **moonpie** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:59 am

Just more government grabbing. In B.C. here we have to have some sort of insurance and current tags if the car is parked on the street or in underground parking, if you are in an apartment building. In fact the Strata insists on some sort of coverage through the insurance corporation. If there is some sort of vandalism to the car, and it is not insured then you are SOL.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:04 am

moonpie;1242979 wrote: Just more government grabbing. In B.C. here we have to have some sort of insurance and current tags if the car is parked on the street or in underground parking, if you are in an apartment building. In fact the Strata insists on some sort of coverage through the insurance corporation. If there is some sort of vandalism to the car, and it is not insured then you are SOL. We have two cars at the moment, one of which is having work done to get it through the MOT but Mr O keeps up the Insurence on It due to vandalism in this country.

moonpie · Post by **moonpie** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:38 am

oscar;1242983 wrote: We have two cars at the moment, one of which is having work done to get it through the MOT but Mr O keeps up the Insurence on It due to vandalism in this country.

Vandalism is really bad here because of the drugs. Even our underground parking had a rash of breakins and window smashings until they put in another gate, that they were still unable to get past, but regardless the $300 deductible you paid for insurance barely covers the cost of a new window for the car, and then as a result of filing a claim, your insurance goes up next year.

It seems like it is always that people who walk the straight and narrow are constantly being screwed by the government or by one of its subsidary "Crown Corporations.":-5:-5

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:01 am

moonpie;1243007 wrote: Vandalism is really bad here because of the drugs. Even our underground parking had a rash of breakins and window smashings until they put in another gate, that they were still unable to get past, but regardless the $300 deductible you paid for insurance barely covers the cost of a new window for the car, and then as a result of filing a claim, your insurance goes up next year.

It seems like it is always that people who walk the straight and narrow are constantly being screwed by the government or by one of its subsidary "Crown Corporations.":-5:-5 Yes, that is the general feeling here. The law abiding get hammered while the one's who cause the damage laugh.

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 5:41 am

Surekly they will apply a bit of common sense-what of you've notified the dvla the car is off the road or it's a classic you only take out in the summer? But this is labour of course

What they should do if they catch someone driving on the road with no insurance is take the car off them and crush it-same with no road tax-they can use their common sense to tell someone who has just forgotten to renew it (I've gone off on holiday and just forgotten to do it before leaving) from someone who just doesn't bother.

Bet you're glad you don't own a motor museum