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Car Insurance News
Car insurance dodgers 'face stricter penalties' - 15/01/2008
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The British Insurance Brokers Association (Biba) points out that it should be harder for motorists to escape car insurance under new rules.
Graeme Trudgill, technical and corporate affairs executive for Biba, asserts that continuous insurance enforcement means that vehicle owners are obliged to get insurance.
Those who do not will be issued with a penalty notice - even if the vehicles are unused, Mr Trudgill explains.
"If the car is in your garage and you don't use it you have to get a statutory off road notification," he says.
These rules mean that drivers "won't be able to get away with having a vehicle and not insuring it any more".
Commenting on the new charge of causing death by careless driving of an uninsured vehicle, the Biba member expresses doubt that this would change the behaviour of "the sort of person that would probably carry on like that".
However, the system will enable the law to deal with such offences in the proper way, he maintains.
A campaign being launched next year by Biba in association with the Department for Transport is to see the dangers of uninsured driving publicised to consumers.
The Motor Insurers' Bureau reports that uninsured driving costs car insurance customers about £30 on their premium.
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