An email alert from the DSA:<\/p>\n
Motorists warned to get insured ahead of crackdown<\/p>\n
Motorists are being warned to insure their vehicles ahead of a new crackdown to tackle the menace of uninsured driving.<\/p>\n
Under the new Continuous Insurance Enforcement law \u2013 which will affect all motorists from 20 June \u2013 it is an offence to keep an uninsured vehicle, rather than just to drive when uninsured.<\/p>\n
A national advertising campaign will be launched by the Motor Insurers\u2019 Bureau today to raise awareness of the law.<\/p>\n
Road Safety Minister Mike Penning said:<\/p>\n
\u201cUninsured drivers are a danger on our roads, killing 160 and injuring a further 23,000 people each year, and they cost honest motorists \u00a3500 million in extra premiums. That is why we are introducing this tough new law which will leave uninsured drivers with nowhere to hide.<\/p>\n
“Our message is clear \u2013 get insured or face a fine, court action or seeing your car seized and destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ashton West, Chief Executive at the Motor Insurers\u2019 Bureau, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe change in law is a stepping up of enforcement activity, so that not only those vehicles driven without insurance will be caught. Now the registered keeper must make sure that their vehicle is insured all the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn order to make sure everyone is aware of the new scheme, a national awareness campaign will be shown on satellite and terrestrial TV channels.<\/p>\n
\u201cAround four percent of vehicles have no motor insurance at any given time, and this needs to change so that is why this new enforcement approach is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n