Another interesting 'amendment'...

According to today's Mail [1] there is a plan afoot to make Driving Without
Insurance a fixed penalty offence.

£200 if you're loaded.
£65 if you're claiming benefit or not able to pay (ie not entirely legal).

Considering my insurance costs around £1000, £65 on the off chance that I'm
stopped seems a right bargain. Certainly not a deterant, which the current
potential £5000 fine is.

Apparently it will " save costs " - so what happened to lives?

Combine that with a dodgy/missing number plate and it would seem you have
virtual impunity unless you're unlucky and find a real copper/have a serious
accident that you can't leg it from.

[1] I don't BUY it, I just laugh at some of the "articles".

 

Unreal. Although given my current insurance is only three hundred notes
or so and the distinct advantage it would do me in the event of said
incident, I'll pay over the odds.

 

I know I've posted this, but it merits repetition.

A close friend sits as a beak in the Three Counties area, and his
"patch" covers the section of the M6 north of Brum (Wolverhampton, etc)
so his bench gets all the offences there, plus, of course, all the
traffic offences from their local area.

His bench has a policy. It must not be cheaper to flout the law than to
obey it. They have a tame insurance agent, and every time they get the
usual toe-rag in a 1989 Vauxhall Nova, up for driving with no insurance,
they ring the agent and ask for a quote.

"19 year-old scrote, eight points on licence, convictions for this, that
and the other... How much?"

And the agent gives them a quote, based on (IIRC) TPO. Maybe TPF&T. And
they add 50% and that's the fine.

I can't help thinking that this is a very sensible, and enlightened,
bunch (bench) of magistrates.

 

Indeed. I can recall seeing some scrotes getting off with less than it
would have cost to simply get insured in the first place, but the cops
in the locality of said scrotes have their cards marked and if they're
up for it again they'll get hammered.


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Dave

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