Uninsured drivers face having car destroyed

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/uninsured-drivers-face-having-car-destroyed-2300053.html

Summary

New laws have been put in effect that have people who own an uninsured car warned to either have it insured or declared off the road. Car owners who ignore this warning face a fine, wheel clamp or even risk having their car destroyed. All this is to reduce the risk of uninsured cars on the road, deaths and the extra burden it places yearly on the prices of insurance of the other drivers. Both the minister of road safety and the Motor Insurer’s Bureau chief executive are in favor of the newly instated laws.

Response

Reducing the risks and improving upon the road safety is always important. There is no such thing as perfection when it comes to traffic safety, but if these laws work as well as they should, at least most of the uninsured vehicles will be kept off the roads. I am, however, not sure if uninsured driving is the biggest problem the road safety minister should be tackling and if this problem is as big a deal as they make it look in this article. Of course I do not have any data to support this idea.