Car Insurance – get insured or say goodbye to your car
Summary
If a car is found to be uninsured, the police now have the power to remove it and have it destroyed. This article explains the latest shock tactics in a bid to punish uninsured drivers.
Author: Anna Richardson
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The police now have the power to remove, impound and crush any car found to be uninsured on the road. Last Spring, in Durham, the ( home insurance quotes ) scheme coined ‘Operation Takeaway' was piloted to great success. Over 1,200 cars have now been impounded – 50% of those have already made it to the crusher.
Operation Takeaway was such a big success that it's being rolled out nationwide. A new national police database that's supported by the insurance industry has given the police the ability to verify the insurance status of every car in the UK. They don't even need to get out of the car to do it.
If you are caught on the road with a car that is not insured, you ( life assurance ) will have to give up your car keys there and then. It doesn't matter if it's an accidental mistake or you have been driving uninsured for years, the penalty is the same – your car gets impounded.
What happens next? Well they give you two weeks to produce an insurance policy certificate and take your car away. There's a few ( secured loans ) costs involved too – you'll have to pay around £105 to cover the cost of the tow truck, and charges for keeping your car impounded often reach £15 a day. Leave collecting your car to the last minute and you could be facing an overall bill of £315.
If you can't produce the insurance certificate and pay the charges, you can say goodbye to your car.
The pilot scheme in Durham was funded in part by Direct Line, who helped cover the costs of crushing the cars. According to them, up to 2,000 accidents were avoided thanks to Operation Takeaway. Since a large proportion of the cars found to be uninsured were in fact un-roadworthy, the roads were a considerably safer place without them.
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