Do insurance companies increase premiums for drivers who have completed a speed awareness course?
In your reply to PJ you intimate that he would avoid any increase in his insurance premium by undertaking a speed awareness course. Is this in fact the situation as it appears, that PJ was in fact speeding and whilst he would not obviously appear in court, he had committed the offence? Would his insurance conditions not insist that he report any such offences?
Asked on 24 March 2012 by AW, Watford
Answered by
Honest John
Some insurers are now penalising drivers for taking police awareness course. That is a very good reason for not using that insurer. I will now campaign for readers to boycott any insurer who asks them to disclose if they have taken a speed awareness course and who imposes any sort of penalty for this. The IAM is furious about this move by insurers because it discourages people from taking the speed awareness courses and becoming safer drivers as a result.
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