Is that car uninsured on your drive?

What is the point in that? Apart from to grab a little bit of extra cash for those part-months that you lose if you don't cash in your tax at the end of the month and take out new tax at the start of the month.

Are they really that desperate to get a few extra quid out of people
 
Mr Fitzpatrick said:
The selfish minority of drivers who refuse to insure their cars push up premiums for other motorists and kill or injure thousands of people each year.'
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How do they kill or injure thousands of people each year by sitting on the driveway?
 
This is annoying, we have a taxed and uninsured car on our private driveway a mile from the nearest public road. When does this take effect?
 
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How do they kill or injure thousands of people each year by sitting on the driveway?
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More to the point I didnt realise it was only uninsured drivers who were responisble for road traffic accidents. How many fatalities are there on the roads each year and what percentage of those are caused by uninsured drivers? Even without the figures im fairly confident his "kill or injure thousands of people each year" statement is sensationalist tosh.
 
[TW]Fox;13327860 said:
This is annoying, we have a taxed and uninsured car on our private driveway a mile from the nearest public road. When does this take effect?
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How dare you push up my premiums, you selfish motorist. Get it insured, now, then inform my insurance company so they can take steps to reduce the cost of my cover.

Pete19s said:
More to the point I didnt realise it was only uninsured drivers who were responisble for road traffic accidents. How many fatalities are there on the roads each year and what percentage of those are caused by uninsured drivers? Even without the figures im fairly confident his "kill or injure thousands of people each year" statement is sensationalist tosh.
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Indeed, a very good point.
 
Absolutely crazy.
I can't believe this is being let through?

So, at the moment any car I have in my garage, that is taxed, MUST be covered by an insurance policy? But If i have it on a SORN I can drive un-insured and un-taxed? What is this supposed to do?
 
heh, interesting the response that this gets from different places.

Surely if the cars not going to be used on the road it should be SORN'd (although i guess if you already have 6months tax theres no benefit to SORNing)....

The slight in-convenience to people who keep taxed cars off the road without actually wanting to drive them is far outweighed by the chance of getting more uninsured numpties off the road?

Admittedly all that will happen is people will just SORN their cars earlier (instead of driving around with Tax and no insurance) and drive around like that... what really need to happen is more ANPR cameras and patrols to catch those who really shouldn't be on the road!
 
It's being introduced so they can further reduce the number of traffic officers and police by database. Currently the DVLA database can report on cars that are not insured but these have to be spotted on a road being driven. This new law makes it easier to catch people by just setting rules on a database to automatically pursue and fine any owner of a vehicle is very easy and will take minimal effort / greatest return for the amount of effort it takes.
 
I know I'm in Jersey but for those who have, what about those with Laid up cover, purely for storage only and not driving?There's no way I'm having my car uninsured from theft/fire/damage whilst it's sleeping/being fixed ;)

I'm just not allowed to drive it, so how is it any different from not having insurance? I'd tell them to go to hell if they wanted me to insure a car I won't be driving.
 
Edit: ^^^^ No it doesn't.

SORNing and unSORNing a car is more than a slight inconvinience, for one it means you have to insure your car about a week before you want to actually drive it because you'll need the paperwork to hand before you can get tax since you'll have to do it the old fashioned way, at a post office.

If someone chooses to drive without insurance they'll have no qualms about driving with no tax either so I don't see how it's going to remove all these uninsured cars from the road.

Also, here's a situation that happened to me a few years back. I had the engine go in my Legacy B4, so I had it recovered to a specialist repairer, Scoobyclinic in Chesterfield. I was living in the south east at the time.

It ended up taking 3 months to repair due to difficulties with the warranty company and then needing to obtain a new engine. My insurance only had one month left, so I let it expire, and when I was told the car was ready to collect I took out a new insurance policy and up I went to collect it.

Now under this proposed new scheme I would have had to make a special trip up just to collect the tax disc so that I could SORN the car.

Alternatively I'd have to argue with the court that while it was in the care of Scoobyclinic it was covered by their insurance, which would also be difficult to prove.
 
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