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by Life Coach

Car insurance is a legal requirement in the UK, but one in twenty drivers persist in driving uninsured. The police are cracking down, and it’s not just an idle threat ?if you’re not insured, your car could be in a crusher near you very shortly!

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 scheme coined operation Take distant was piloted to great success. Over 1,200 cars have now been impounded 50% of those have already made it to the crusher.

Operation Take distant was such a big success that it’s being rolled out nationwide. A new national police database that’s supported by the American auto insurance 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 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 far. There’s a few cost s involved too. You’ll have to settle around to cover the expenses of the tow truck, and charges for keeping your car impounded many times reach ?5 a day. Leave collecting your car to the last minute and you could be facing an overall bill If you can 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 cost s 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.

As the police said, noninsured drivers are frequent guilty of many other offences such as not having a driving license or an MOT certificate. We are doing everything in our power to get these dangerous and illegal drivers off our roads.

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