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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: Varche on 16 January 2019, 09:04:38
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Just watched a Swintons tv ad which claims
“ with a million uninsured drivers in the UK”
How do they know? Is it accurate? I thought ANPR sent out automatically letters to vehicle owner if no insurance.? At a guess 40 million people in uk with a driving licence so one in 40 uninsured!
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I went to a lecture by the ANPR manager for a local police force some years back. He said that they had to turn off reporting of untaxed / uninsured cars because the volume of "hits" risked bringing their system down. :o
They are more interested in solving serious crime and anti-terrorism.
Of course, the roadside ANPRs might pull you over if you're unlucky, but my understanding is that they can't prosecute by post after the fact (unlike for speeding). ::)
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Just watched a Swintons tv ad which claims
“ with a million uninsured drivers in the UK”
How do they know? Is it accurate? I thought ANPR sent out automatically letters to vehicle owner if no insurance.? At a guess 40 million people in uk with a driving licence so one in 40 uninsured!
Just because the car/registered keeper is insured it doesn't mean the driver is.
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Just watched a Swintons tv ad which claims
“ with a million uninsured drivers in the UK”
How do they know? Is it accurate? I thought ANPR sent out automatically letters to vehicle owner if no insurance.? At a guess 40 million people in uk with a driving licence so one in 40 uninsured!
Just because the car/registered keeper is insured it doesn't mean the driver is.
Exactly :y
Unless the police stop the person driving a motor vehicle and find they, personally, are not insured to drive then no offence can be proved. In short a driver can only be prosecuted as "uninsured" when they are found to be actually driving a motor vehicle. ;)
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So do we believe the Swintons insurance company claim of one million?
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So do we believe the Swintons insurance company claim of one million?
I think they're probably being optimistic about that number - I'd bet that it's far higher.
I expect they're extrapolating from their own statistics on claims against uninsured third parties, though, so they stand a chance of being reasonably accurate.
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Add to this the number of cars without MOT
drivers without a licence,
drivers with a licence who don't deserve one due to their inability ,
cars with serious faults that the driver is blissfully unaware of
the shyte state of our road network
drink and drug drivers (or indeed pedestrians)
adverse weather (like a light sprinkle of snow ) ;D
and bus company managers that you have to chase for new wing mirrors >:( :-X
not a great place to drive anymore ::)
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So do we believe the Swintons insurance company claim of one million?
Probably based on the number of people they repeatedly spam every year ::)
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So do we believe the Swintons insurance company claim of one million?
There's a certain city in West Yorkshire where, it is reckoned, that around 1 in 5 are uninsured. :-X
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So do we believe the Swintons insurance company claim of one million?
There's Bradford in West Yorkshire where, it is reckoned, that around 15 drivers are insured. probably just passing through :-\
FTFY ;)
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So do we believe the Swintons insurance company claim of one million?
There's Bradford in West Yorkshire where, it is reckoned, that around 15 drivers are insured. probably just passing through :-\
FTFY ;)
OOOOOOOOO........controversial. :o
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but true
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How many variations of Muhammed are there? 10?, add in Smith, Jones, Collins and Murphy, 15 is probably an accurate guesstimate ::)