Convicted Driver
Government insists it is taking on uninsured and untaxed cars
Tue, 04 Apr 2006
New government plans should tackle uninsured and untaxed cars, a minister has claimed.
Roads minister Stephen Ladyman spoke out last week as it was revealed that one in 20 cars in the UK is uninsured meaning law-abiding motorist's car insurance premiums are £40 higher each to cover this.
New regulations will establish a national computer database of uninsured cars and people buying a car will be forced to tell the authorities that if there is no insurance they are either scrapping it or taking it off the road.
Mr Ladyman told Sky News: "It is a big problem but we have now given the police powers to enforce from the records where they can use automatic number plate recognition systems to identify that a car has not got insurance instantly by checking against the insurance database.
"That means they can stop vehicles out on the road, but of course you are only committing a crime at the moment if you drive a car that is uninsured. We are changing the law to make it a crime to own a car that is uninsured and that will mean it is much easier to check if a car has insurance or not."
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