New uninsured driver clampdown is launched
18 October 2007
Motor Insurer's Bureau in online push

The Motor Insurers' Bureau has launched a new initiative that aims to cut down the number of uninsured drivers on the road.

A new website, created by the organisation, allows drivers of vehicles insured on commercial policies limited online access to the Motor Insurance Database.

The database receives some 250,000 updates from insurers in the UK who must, by law, provide information about every vehicle on their books.

Vehicles impounded

The MIB is initially promoting the website to fleet operators only and is hoping the move will prompt them to ensure their work vehicles are correctly listed in the database.

Vehicles not on the database will be detected by automatic number plate recognition cameras, which can be anywhere from on helicopters and police cars to motorway gantries and service stations.

The cameras are linked to the database and the identified vehicles, when found, are likely to be impounded by police.

Last year 78,000 vehicles were seized through this process.

The MIB has claimed that uninsured drivers killed 160 people last year and approximately 23,000 people are involved in accidents with uninsured drivers.
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Ian Watson says:
Its a compliance thing, pure and simple because people are sick to death of paying for overpriced insurance and so the government at their behest brings in more and more legislation to force this compliance. Motor insurance funds should be legislated away from other sources of insurance costs so it means we don't pay for floods in Europe or storms in Scotland or sponsorships etc.
07 Nov 2007 14:52:43
An old Hand says:
Why don't they just introduce a European stylr certificate that goes in the window next to the Tax disc. It could even use the same style of detection at the side of the road. and of course in the long run would cut premiums
18 Oct 2007 14:08:35
Another Old Hand says:
The current system is farcical. We pay people to check that we have a tax disc and still we have uninsured drivers. Put third party insurance and RFL onto the cost of fuel. Those who travel further / use less efficient cars will pay more and everyone is covered. We save all cost on all those people, renewals postage and devices to check tax discs.
19 Oct 2007 13:56:20
another old hand says:
Well, i think it just makes life a lot harder!!! The old bobby on the street can check tax and everything els. Just another waste of money.
30 Nov 2007 15:34:18
Phil B says:
GET TOUGHER! I say. After recently been rear ended by an uninsured driver while in my little TPFT insured run about, the other driver wont give his insurance details, the police checked him out and say he is insured so they cant take any more action! the MID database shows him as uninsured at the time? the police cant release his insurance details due to the data protection act! Madness. I luckily have legal coverage but this mess could take years to sort out leaving me with an unroadworthy car and out of pocket due to buying another car, this pest is still howling round the town like an idiot after finding the money to repair his car. I agree with another old hand stick it on the fuel and even on the reg plate like in the USA (no insurance no registration that will make them think twice) Unless you have been a victim of this sort of thing you dont realise how frustrating it can be.
07 Jan 2008 11:06:34
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