Re: Close Call today

Beamish · Post by **Beamish** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:07 pm

Good cold callers dont come along too often. Nice one Timbo.

stormingjoe · Post by **stormingjoe** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:23 pm

phew lucky there

Post by **sirch345** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 10:57 pm

That was a bit of luck Tim

How long have there been camera's checking for uninsured road users

Chris.

Post by **sirch345** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:07 am

I don't know how I missed that introduction Tim, although thinking about I did have more serious things going on in my life at that time

I wonder how successful they've been, as they estimated we did have 2 million uninsured drivers on our roads.

If as much effort was put into catching uninsured drivers as they put into catching speeding vehicles, then by now they should have caught most of them

Chris.

Stratman · Post by **Stratman** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:33 pm

I wonder how successful they've been, as they estimated we did have 2 million uninsured drivers on our roads.

I'd take that figure with a pinch of Daily Mail salt quite honestly, it would be a huge percentage.

There are far too many though, and if they haven't insurance they haven't bothered about a licence or MOT either. At least they get their cars crushed now.

Fed up with subsidising criminals, whether they are chav scroats or ex top bankers!

warby221 · Post by **warby221** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:51 pm

Stratman wrote:
I'd take that figure with a pinch of Daily Mail salt quite honestly, it would be a huge percentage.

The 2 million uninsured drivers is a conservative estimate from the DOT

Thatâ€™s 1 in 20 drivers some have put the number as high as 1 in 5 drivers

The 1 in 20 is for people that have no insurance at all and dose not cover all the drivers and riders for that matter that have not declared pointâ€™s, banâ€™s, accidents, modifications and them that are using a postal address that they donâ€™t live at for cheaper quotes and so on. All of which can nullified your insurance in the event of an accident

Personally I would estimate 8 million as being nearer the mark

The average fine for no insurance is around Â£190 so a lot decide it cheaper to just take the chance than to get insurance and points donâ€™t work as they donâ€™t care if there not legal so they donâ€™t have a license next time so what. For any one caught more than one I would give them 2 to 3 years inside minimum at least there of the streets.

To cover the arseholes it costs every one else about Â£30 on yer premium every year.

I absolutely hate uninsured drivers because if they injury some one badly/do a lot of expensive damage itâ€™s the other poor sod who involved that ends up footing the bill some times for life.

Stratman · Post by **Stratman** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 8:14 pm

Instead of this obsession with "speed kills" and trying to find ways to control cars and bikes via satellite, surely it isn't too difficult to develop technology to incorporate insurance/tax details into a key fob/swipe card etc which means that the vehicle won't start if things aren't in order? Ditto built in breathalyser immobilser.

Wired in to all vehicles with anti tamper technology, there would be a cost implication but it must be less than the cost of the damage these people do etc?