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Car insurance evaders face vehicle seizure
A new push is underway in Tayside to take drivers off the road who don't have licences or car insurance.
Police officers can seize vehicles belonging to insured or unlicensed drivers under the Police Act 2005 and this is exactly what they will be doing in this initiative.
People driving without car insurance have been shown to be up to six times more likely to be driving a poorly maintained vehicle than those with a current motor insurance policy. The former are also up to ten times more likely to be caught drink driving than the latter.
Describing these motorists as a threat, the Tayside Police chief constable John Vine commented, "Unlicensed and uninsured drivers are a threat to all road users and we aim to remove that threat by removing their means of transport. In other words - if they have no licence, no insurance, then soon they will have no car."
The chief constable went on, "It is the law-abiding citizens who are paying the consequences for these irresponsible, selfish drivers, and quite rightly they are fed up of it. We deal with a large number of offenders each year, but these new powers provide an immediate solution to these offences."
The Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) is an organisation set up to provide compensation to those who have been injured in accidents with drivers who don't have car insurance or who are untraceable. It is estimated that around £30 from every motorist's car insurance policy gets put into the MIB fund in order to cover the costs of these drivers.