A national crackdown on uninsured driving has been launched but in one metropolitan county alone, thousands of vehicles have already been seized this year due to lack of insurance.
The
Huddersfield Daily Examiner reported that so far this year, the West Yorkshire police have taken 5,361 uninsured cars that are at risk of being crushed if their owners don’t pay the hefty fines.
“On average, we seize 20-25 cars a day across the county for having no insurance,” Sergeant Gary Roper of the West Yorkshire police’s roads policing support unit told the publication.
“Teams across the organisation regularly work closely with partners to tackle this issue, including days of action and proactive operations,” he added.
According to the report, authorities use Automatic Number Plate Recognition technology with information from the Motor Insurance Database to identify and catch those driving uninsured vehicles.
“We are aware that drivers using the roads without insurance is something that most law-abiding drivers want agencies to take action against,” the
Examiner quoted Roper as saying.
The Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) has launched a national crackdown on uninsured driving in cooperation with police forces across the UK.
The MIB said about 3,000 vehicles without insurance will be seized every week this year as part of the government’s efforts to curb uninsured driving.
“It will see police operations mounted across many areas of the UK targeting potential uninsured drivers, including daily operations in the West Midlands and London where we know the problem is acute in some areas,” said detective superintendent Paul Keasey, the National Police Chiefs Council’s head of National Roads Policing Intelligence Forum.
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