“ IMHO, if you could look up a car with no insurance, you could be saving all of us road legal drivers a lot of money” You can though, just put the reg no into askmid and it’ll tell you if the car in question is insured or not.

There is the option to Pay...

Surely freely dishing out peoples names and addresses along with details of who they purchased their car insurance from is directly contrary to the GDPR regulations. Let me remind you the GDPR regulations have real teeth. Serious consequences for breaching them

<< I can drive a friend's car with my own insurance even if the owner has no insurance. Lots of tradespeople can drive any car as part of their business. >>

Of course, but your driving another's car under your insurance is a secondary matter. The system should be able to show a simple Yes/No as to whether a vehicle has current insurance cover.

Yes, but a policy refers to a particular vehicle. In just the same way as checking a vehicle's MoT history, one could check whether it is insured. You don't need to know who by or for.

In most cases that will be the case but there are plenty of exceptions. I can drive a friends car with my own insurance even if the owner has no insurance. Lots of trades people can drive any car as part of their business. Most motorcycle insurance cover the rider for any bike as long as they don't own it. The insurance is with the driver not the car and they can't give out info on people.

I thought the insurance cover for cars other than your own only applied if the other vehicle was covered under another policy. There have been several cases when someone driving an otherwise uninsured car on the 'third party' cover clause was done for driving uninsured.

(I stand to be corrected by those with greater knowledge of the law)