Mobile
service helps accident victims check insurance at the roadside
The askMID
Roadside service offers motorists peace of mind that the insurance details provided
by the other driver at the scene of an accident match the records held on the
Motor Insurance Database. 131218
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Continuous Insurance
Enforcement caution
You will need to think about complying with the Continuous
Insurnace Enforcement (CIE) requirements if your car is with a restorer for a
moderate or an extended period of time. 131203
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Millionth uninsured vehicle
seized as UK’s hotspots revealed
Twelve locations in the UK's top
20 uninsured driving hotspots are in the West Midlands according to research undertaken
for the Motor Insurers' Bureau or MIB. 200912
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Key CIE data reminder
cards
See our credit card sized forms you can fill in, cut out and pop
in with your cards as a reminder of the key dates - road tax/SORN expiry, MOT
expiry and insurance renewal dates. 050711
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DVLA Continuous
Insurance Enforcement fact sheet for seasonal vehicle users.
Two page fact sheet from DVLA. 300611 More
DVLA press release - tougher approach to uninsured drivers
Whilst
desirable, classic car owners could easily trip up by forgetting their insurance
renewal needs attending to when their car is garaged but not on a SORN. More
Notes with the DVLA press release on 20th June 2011
1. A total of 449,228 successful searches (vehicle found) were carried
out on the MID in May compared to 369,978 in April. 2.
Latest estimates are that around 4% (around 1.4 million) of GB motorists drive
uninsured. The penalty for driving without insurance is a maximum fine of £5,000
and 6-8 penalty points or possible disqualification. Around 200,000 offenders
are convicted for uninsured driving every year. 3.
Currently every responsible motorist pays an average £30 each year within
their premiums to cover crashes involving uninsured and untraced drivers. It is
estimated that uninsured and untraced drivers kill 160 people and injure 23,000
every year. 4.
Measures already introduced in the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005
gave police improved access to the MID and powers to seize vehicles driven without
insurance. In 2009 around 180,000 uninsured vehicles were seized.
DVLA press release
See the earlier DVLA press release
on 23rd May 2011. More
Continuous insurance enforcement is coming in early in 2011
Unfortunately
the date when this measure will start has not yet been clarified. 090611
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SORN and
motor insurance - current position
To combat the menace of the large number
of uninsured drivers on the road in the UK, the Government and its agency the
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency or DVLA have instituted various measures to
improve the reliability of the DVLA driver and vehicle database.
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