Not-for-profit organisation Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) has invested £5 million to increase work on ensuring road safety by capturing uninsured drivers.
Since 2005, MIB, the government, insurers, and the police have seized over 2.5 million uninsured vehicles as part of their measures to ensure road safety. Now, its focus is on uninsured driving, which has devastated victims and their families. In a news release, MIB said “uninsured driving impacts the cost of the MIB levy and inevitably increases the cost of motor insurance for honest premium-paying customers.”
The MIB board has approved an investment in the programme, which lays down data and methods on getting uninsured drivers off the roads as well as plans for new initiatives beginning in 2024.
“We’ve made good progress in a short space of time. We’ve expanded our enforcement team to support and equip the police at the roadside, committed to fund Operational Tutelage for another three years, and have already started work to refresh the way we work with the DVLA to compare a list of vehicles on the road with those that carry insurance to help identify problem vehicles and inform motorists to buy insurance,” said MIB’s Martin Saunders, who is leading the programme.
“But there’s lots more we’re going to do. We’ll have a big focus on leveraging technologies and data in our digital world, such as utilising predictive analytics; better informed ‘hotspots’ and establishing partnerships with those who we believe can help tackle the uninsured problem.”
“Uninsured driving has huge physical, emotional and economic impact, so we have to do all we can to turn our vision into reality and make driving without insurance a thing of the past,” said James Dalton, chief services officer at MIB. “We’ve got huge plans to test and trial new ideas to come up with the most effective package of initiatives that make sure uninsured drivers have nowhere to hide and we can get them off the roads before it’s too late.”
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