Cumbria joins Operation Take-away..

[Streetcop]

Nice to see that Cumbria police are joining the other forces in the operation where uninsured vehicles are seized...



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3704552.stm



Street

>>> Edited by Streetcop on Friday 1st October 07:43

[bry460y]

GOOD!!!!Lets hope more forces follow in there tyre/tracks.

[swilly]

Out of interest, Who pays for the crushing?

What with the cost of scrapping cars nowadays, many people may use this as an opportunity to do it onthe cheap.

Unless of course the unisured pay for the crushing.

[lanciachris]

the article said:

It is estimated that one in 20 motorists drive on the UK's roads without inadequate insurance cover.

[WildCat]

According to the article - these uninsured, probably unqualified drivers (think they actually were from the various reports in the "Westmorland Gazette" at the times) caused 8 of the fatals.

According to our Steviebabes - all the accidents are caused by normal law abiding folk flooring it through the area which is why he hides his talivans behind foliage and within yards of a speed limit change ....

But I agree that this is good deterrent - and would suggest that they pay mega turbo-charged-whopping fine or eat lots of porridge if they cannot afford to pay the mega turbo-charged whopping fine (as it should not be payable at 5p per week!)

But - you need cops and not talivans and Gatsos to enforce this properly

[pdV6]

lanciachris said:

the article said: It is estimated that one in 20 motorists drive on the UK's roads without inadequate insurance cover.

So that's 19/20 uninsured, then?

[BlackStuff]

pdV6 said:

lanciachris said: the article said: It is estimated that one in 20 motorists drive on the UK's roads without inadequate insurance cover. So that's 19/20 uninsured, then?

Now let's see if we can resolve the double-negatives and actually make sense of that. How about....

It isn't unestimated that not one in 20 motorists don't drive not off the UK's roads without inadequate uninsured coverage.

Much clearer now!

[medicineman]

Once again shows how sensible law enforcement makes the roads safer and the public happier.

[Liszt]

As I posted in another thread, salvage companies can make some money off a scrapper, usually as baled ("crushed") metal. It is not alot, but means that the council only pay a miminal amount to get it picked up, depolluted and crushed.