Honest drivers set to lose £1bn - Quel Surprise...

[CarZee]

www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=509415&in_review_text_id=472587

quote:Honest drivers pay an extra £30 a year because more than a million others do not insure their cars, an influential industry study shows. By 2005, however, they will be forced to pay an extra £60 each.

Brilliant

[Fatboy]

Maybe if insurance wasn't so ridiculously expensive it wouldn't be such a problem.

I for one object to paying more than my car is worth every year to insure it TPFT (or fully comp, not much difference). Not that I'm saying I don't have insurance, just that it pisses me off coughing up that much dough...

[CarZee]

perhaps the biggest reasons why premiums have gone up are:

1) Claims Direct and such like litigious scum..

2) Repairs seem to be more expensive on modern cars - panels, spraying etc and crumple zones probably increase the proportion that are write-offs..

[scotty2]

Why don't they use the "Insurance Disc" as well as a tax disc or a la USA make your "licence plates" have an insurance bar code or sommat.

They could tax us on it

Would stop the scum who get fined less than it would to insure their pile of crap. Hopefully.

[esselte]

"They could tax us on it "

Isn't there already a tax on insurance?

[Neil Menzies]

quote:A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.