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Bromley police crack down on uninsured drivers with 300 cars seized
9:52am Friday 21st September 2012 in Bromley By Heloise Wood
Bromley police crack down on uninsured drivers with 300 cars seized
POLICE have seized over 300 uninsured vehicles seized across Bromley in the last five and half months.
MPS Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe launched the crackdown at the end of last year to target criminals and disrupt their activities by denying them the use of London's roads.
Police say approximately 80 per cent of uninsured drivers have a criminal record, with many actively using their vehicles to facilitate their offending.
These drivers are also five times more likely to be involved in collisions and a reduced chance the vehicles will be in a roadworthy condition.
Chief Inspector Carron Schusler said: "We're sending a strong message to people who choose to drive without insurance - we will seize and possibly sell or crush your vehicle."
Driving without insurance is an offence under the Road Traffic Act. The penalty for driving a vehicle without insurance, an offence under the Road Traffic Act, is six penalty points and £200 fine.
It can also lead to a driving ban.
Comments(9)
Polly Staight
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12:06pm Fri 21 Sep 12
My, how time flies.
bnorther
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12:18pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Carparkattendant wrote:That system is flawed tho. I am insured to drive any car, so a disk attached to the car would not reflect that.
Drivers should have to display proof of insurance similar to a tax disc in the windscreen of the car.
j.j.
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12:44pm Fri 21 Sep 12
Polly Staight wrote:There should be no "crack down season". This should be a permanent activity for the police, and not just in Bromley, as this is probably one of the most effective ways of making our roads safer and catching criminals at the same time.
"Crack down" season again already... My, how time flies.
madras
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12:40pm Sun 23 Sep 12
j.j. wrote:I agree - how often do you read of a car stopped for tax/insurance offences only to reveal other offences / wanted persons / etc - make some better use of the cameras and no excuses!
Polly Staight wrote:There should be no "crack down season". This should be a permanent activity for the police, and not just in Bromley, as this is probably one of the most effective ways of making our roads safer and catching criminals at the same time.
"Crack down" season again already... My, how time flies.
cynical-mum
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1:38pm Sun 23 Sep 12
reasonable75
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7:03pm Sun 23 Sep 12
She couldn't care less. My only option would have been to take her to court, but as she's on benefit what good would it do?
Marty1979
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8:08pm Sun 23 Sep 12
reasonable75 wrote:I'd be surprised if the driver even had a licence
Good! I was rammed by an uninsured (and untaxed) driver - ended up losing my no-claims
She couldn't care less. My only option would have been to take her to court, but as she's on benefit what good would it do?
zooloo
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9:27am Mon 24 Sep 12
cynical-mum wrote:Not completely acurate as car dealer ships and crash repair centres and also police (to move move cars off the road) have a policy that will cover them to drive any car even if the car it-self has not got insurance.
even with insurance to drive any car, the car you are actually driving still needs to be insured, so a disc in the window to show this would work but now that most of the tax/mot/insurance is computerised the police can tell if a car is being driven legally before they pull it over.
Carparkattendant says...
11:58am Fri 21 Sep 12