{"id":6970,"date":"2011-09-26T14:38:21","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6970"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:38:21","slug":"uninsured-driver-blackspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6970","title":{"rendered":"Uninsured Driver Blackspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader pointed me towards <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"WalletPop - Uninsured Driver Blackspots\" href=\"http:\/\/www.walletpop.co.uk\/2011\/09\/12\/the-blackspots-where-a-third-of-drivers-are-uninsured\/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cuk%7Cdl4%7Csec3_lnk1%7C79240\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000; \">this story on WalletPop<\/a> concerning a survey done by the Motor Insurers&#8217; Bureau.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police Incident\" title=\"Police Incident\" width=\"180\" height=\"179\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6971 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/police_incident.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/179;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The story identifies so-called blackspots, where &#8220;almost&#8221; a third of drivers are driving without insurance. Uninsured drivers add an average of \u00a330 to everyone&#8217;s annual motor insurance premiums.<\/p>\n<p>I am totally against uninsured driving, but I can&#8217;t respond to the drama they seem to be creating around these blackspots. Is it any better if you&#8217;re maimed by an uninsured driver from, say, Richmond or South Kensington instead of Halifax, Birmingham, or Manchester? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>I remember one of those TV police shows where one of the traffic cops said that on the normal roads, you might find that 1 in every 10 routine stops involves an uninsured driver (this was in South Yorkshire), but there was a particular (very rough) housing estate in Sheffield where you could be sure that <strong>every <\/strong>stopped car would be uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>And Sheffield doesn&#8217;t even feature on the list in this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader pointed me towards this story on WalletPop concerning a survey done by the Motor Insurers&#8217; Bureau. The story identifies so-called blackspots, where &#8220;almost&#8221; a third of drivers are driving without insurance. Uninsured drivers add an average of \u00a330 to everyone&#8217;s annual motor insurance premiums. I am totally against uninsured driving, but I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}