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That's a lot of uninsured drivers
No wonder some pull out wads of cash to pay when they've damaged a persons bike.
No wonder some drive off when they damage a person's bike -
It's a classic case of "pay today versus maybe pay tomorrow", if the car costs £1,000 to insure then that's £1,000 you have to find.
If you don't, then you might get caught, you might get a fine, but you might get away with it.
Bin the "tax disc" and issue an insurance disc (as they do on Jersey I believe), then a copper can see at a glance if the car has insurance
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They think 1 in 8 cars in Tottenham is uninsured.
want' there a recent clamp-down on this announced - or was this just in Hackney - recall a lot of cars being removed from the road or something..
hmmmm, i could only find this from Oct 2011,
Over 20 cars seized in Hackney
On Tuesday 19 October Hackney Officers and Metropolitan Police Service Traffic Officers stopped 200 vehicles and seized 22 of them as they were uninsured.
(that's 11%!!)
Hackney’s Operation Support Inspector, Pat Brown, said: ” In Hackney we will not tolerate the use of uninsured vehicles and robustly deal with offenders. The annual cost of uninsured driving is around £500 million, which is paid for by all honest motorists to a value of about £30 per insurance premium. About 23,000 people are injured and 160 people killed by uninsured and untraced drivers every year. It is vital that officers in Hackney continue to carry on the excellent work of the operation, in order to protect the law abiding citizens of Hackney.”
was under the impression that the digital cameras with number plate recognition would have solved this problem - is there some reluctance on the part of police / the authorities to get this going on?!!
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want' there a recent clamp-down on this announced - or was this just in Hackney - recall a lot of cars being removed from the road or something..
hmmmm, i could only find this from Oct 2011,
Over 20 cars seized in Hackney
(that's 11%!!)
was under the impression that the digital cameras with number plate recognition would have solved this problem - is there some reluctance on the part of police / the authorities to get this going on?!!
Camera based enforcement only works if the registered keeper of the vehicle is accurate.
If you never send off the V5 then all the enforcement notices go to the old owner, who if they did not get the details of the new owner will effectively provide a dead end for said letters.
That's assuming that the seller even passed the V5 on- when a car changes hands for a couple of hundred quid in a car park and the new owner has no intention of taxing, MOT'ing or insuring said car then enforcement that relies on the owner supplying an up to date address is on a hiding to nothing.
This sort of thing needs actual traffic police- fucking loads of them.
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That'd work- needs actual real life coppers.
When they did an ANPR roadblock on Lea Bridge Road they caught untold uninsured cars, drugs, cash and weapons. They hid cops away from the road block to catch drivers who saw it and did a u turn.
This sort of thing needs actual traffic police- fucking loads of them.
ahhha - this sounds like #ProperPolicing the stuff i used to watch on The Bill!
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When they did an ANPR roadblock on Lea Bridge Road they caught untold uninsured cars, drugs, cash and weapons. They hid cops away from the road block to catch drivers who saw it and did a u turn.
There needs to be far more traffic policing--denying criminals the use of the street network. It is an utter absurdity in this country that there's virtually no enforcement of traffic regulations.
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To be honest, enforcing of traffic regs are up to the coppers in the road section. They are the ones who have the cars, equipment and training to do so.
You have a choice over that. More CCTV that will catch cars via ANPR but will also film you or more cops in cars and less 'bobbies on the beat'
It is a 'Big Brother' issue. Cameras everywhere are a lot more cost efective but create issues over personal freedom.
And GCHQ sends it to the Yanks...
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Bin the "tax disc" and issue an insurance disc (as they do on Jersey I believe), then a copper can see at a glance if the car has insurance
Yes.
In Aus you register your car and this includes 3rd-party insurance by default. No registration sticker on your car = highly likely to get busted and big fines.
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Out jogging - negotiating zebra crossing north - south on the horror that is Bayswater road north of Hyde Park.
Bus on the inner lane stops, I start to cross. I'm just about to cross the outside lane at a jog when a white van flies through the zebra crossing nearly knocking me down. Bus driver and I share a bewildered look. White van stops further down the road and driver starts shouting abuse at me. Which wasn't surprising given that he was a complete cnut.
Only occurred to me ten minutes later in to my run that I should have asked the bus driver for the cab CCTV recording.
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That might just go directly to John Griffin.
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Please report dangerous drivers to the police - Roadsafe. Report to plod, not just whinge here.
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reported an anti-social driver from a tester TNRC ride last night; will be doing this (hopefully not) regularly from now on for any motor-vehicle behaving aggressively..
{unfortunately i couldn't catch-up the motorcycle who undertook (grrr!!) me last night, around Shoreditch, swerving around two female cyclists and myself; second time this sort of manoeuvre has surprised me in about two months - never experienced it before.. - guess he might come a cropper from excessive speed before any reporting catches up with him}
.. is there an outside-London version?