Uninsured Hotspots

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Mon 15 Feb 2010 15:55
Uninsured Hotspots - Falkirk Bairn
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/insura...l

The article talks about hefty fines of £200........................
£200 fine seems very low when these drivers are avoiding insurance premiums of £1500+ / year.

2/3 of my neighbours have sons/daughters in the 17/18 bracket and £1500 seems the base premium - makes the £500 on driving lessons look the cheap part of the exercise!

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Mon 15 Feb 2010 16:08
Uninsured Hotspots - woodster
''according moneysupermarket.com, which analysed requests for insurance quotes on its website. ''

I'm not sure that this type of 'research' can give any accuracy as to a 'hotspot' for this offence. For one it's research is from insurance applications only, and secondly, depends on the honesty of the applicant.

As to your point about the fine vs. the premium, I agree that one bears no relation top the other nor does much to discourage offending. HM Government continually seeks to divert cases from court, due to the expense, and thus, rightly or wrongly, this became a fixed penalty offence.
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Mon 15 Feb 2010 16:15
Uninsured Hotspots - pmh3
Probably the most unscientific analysis since going to war based on the existence of WMD.

The data could be equally well be presented with the the headline - 'Police in London only half as perceptive as those in Scotland'

Is it my imagination, or is the DT heading in the same direction as the DailyWail?


;)

Edited by pmh3 on 15/02/2010 at 16:16

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Mon 15 Feb 2010 17:06
Uninsured Hotspots - madf

Is it my imagination, or is the DT heading in the same direction as the DailyWail?

It is not aiming as Low high as that ...

Edit

Added hastily: its car section is incomparably better though.. :-)

Edited by madf on 15/02/2010 at 17:07

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Mon 15 Feb 2010 17:15
Uninsured Hotspots - scouseford
"Is it my imagination, or is the DT heading in the same direction as the DailyWail?"

No, it's definitely not your imagination. I stopped buying it about 2 years ago. What finally did it for me was a front page story that said that Franco was personally responsible for the fact that Cliff Richard did not win a Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Spain in the late 60's.

I agree with madf though. I still follow their motoring section online.
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Tue 16 Feb 2010 10:45
Uninsured Hotspots - Rose
If that were all Franco were guilty of . Anyway do you mean C F might otherwise have won-- god forbid. lol!
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