Over 7,000 vehicles seized for no insurance since the start of the year. Seems like a phenomenal number for such a small country.
Good news
They should seize about 10% of the total number of uninsured cars this year.
There’s probably not much pointing in scaling that activity up too much… as soon as it becomes obvious what’s happening most of the rest will just pay their insurance, which is in everyone’s best interests.
We want people to drive properly insured vehicles, and we have no interest in collecting a load of shit cars and having to dispose of them while clogging the courts with pointless cases.
Either way, we get the numbers down to a minimal number of uninsured cars on the road, which is the goal.
Good. I fear the uninsured drivers may not be the safest and most considerate users of our roads. Get them all.
You’d think they could go one step further and put a camera on high-volume roads and just automatically mass check people.
There’s a builders van that parks outside my apartment on the street after 7pm and I remember checking that it had a expired nct, a expired tax disc and a expired insurance disc. Complete scumbag
For once I’m all for it. I’m usually a believer in break one law at a time if you have to break it, but tax out a few days or the ongoing bullshit trying to get NCT appointments is one thing. Droves of people just not insuring their vehicle is madness and spits in the face of people who pay the sometimes mad insurance prices.
My understanding aswell is it basically costs us all more because if they have an accident, the insurance paid out in the case where someone is uninsured is basically from a pot filled by people who are insured
Not a brag but was stopped recently with a fully out of date windscreen. Thought I’d be taken away but Mr Garda was able to check it on his machine and I’d a good excuse for the tax and nct so massive phew
I would have thought something like insurance would just be checked on an ANPR system and you would then receive your fine and points in the post.
Crazy that it still needs to be manually checked like this in this day and age, no wonder there’s so many chancing their luck.
The UK and other countries in Europe have a much better automated system. You can’t get tax with a MOT (NCT). You can’t get insurance without a valid tax.
~~All~~ High proportion of the filling stations are connected to automated number plate recognition system (ANPR) which scans the reg on forecourt entry and does this check. If an untaxed or uninsured car is detected, it pings up these details on the police system and the nearest squad car pulls them up straight away. All squad cars also have ANPR systems installed.
Just the forecourt system alone over here would pay for itself in no time, whilst allowing Gards resources to be available to combatting crime in more appropriate areas.
Really positive. Hopefully now we’ll see people catch on and start paying their insurance. Highlights the benefit technology can bring when done well. Red light cameras and widespread rollout of average speed cameras next, please!
On one hand, this is an insane number of drivers with no insurance.
On the other hand, I _kinda_ get it, insurance is still insanely expensive, and if you ever get into even a minor accident, say hello to double or triple premiums for the next few years.
I’m not justifying it, I’m just saying if insurance didn’t cost as much as buying another car, then more people would have it. 1500-2000 euro quotes for tiny 1.2l cars is just stupid for young drivers.
The mad thing is, it doesn’t have to be this expensive. Insurance doesnt cost this much in the UK, USA or practically anywhere in europe.
>The minister said there also needs to be a change in people’s behaviour.
There needs to be a change in the behaviour of the insurance companies scamming people out of a fortune. What happened that time the government were looking into it? They decided the insurance cost were justified? I find that very hard to believe.
This is surely a positive thing if user correctly.
How anyone in good moral conscience can drive around uninsured is beyond me.
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Over 7,000 vehicles seized for no insurance since the start of the year. Seems like a phenomenal number for such a small country.
Good news
They should seize about 10% of the total number of uninsured cars this year.
There’s probably not much pointing in scaling that activity up too much… as soon as it becomes obvious what’s happening most of the rest will just pay their insurance, which is in everyone’s best interests.
We want people to drive properly insured vehicles, and we have no interest in collecting a load of shit cars and having to dispose of them while clogging the courts with pointless cases.
Either way, we get the numbers down to a minimal number of uninsured cars on the road, which is the goal.
Good. I fear the uninsured drivers may not be the safest and most considerate users of our roads. Get them all.
You’d think they could go one step further and put a camera on high-volume roads and just automatically mass check people.
There’s a builders van that parks outside my apartment on the street after 7pm and I remember checking that it had a expired nct, a expired tax disc and a expired insurance disc. Complete scumbag
For once I’m all for it. I’m usually a believer in break one law at a time if you have to break it, but tax out a few days or the ongoing bullshit trying to get NCT appointments is one thing. Droves of people just not insuring their vehicle is madness and spits in the face of people who pay the sometimes mad insurance prices.
My understanding aswell is it basically costs us all more because if they have an accident, the insurance paid out in the case where someone is uninsured is basically from a pot filled by people who are insured
Not a brag but was stopped recently with a fully out of date windscreen. Thought I’d be taken away but Mr Garda was able to check it on his machine and I’d a good excuse for the tax and nct so massive phew
I would have thought something like insurance would just be checked on an ANPR system and you would then receive your fine and points in the post.
Crazy that it still needs to be manually checked like this in this day and age, no wonder there’s so many chancing their luck.
The UK and other countries in Europe have a much better automated system. You can’t get tax with a MOT (NCT). You can’t get insurance without a valid tax.
~~All~~ High proportion of the filling stations are connected to automated number plate recognition system (ANPR) which scans the reg on forecourt entry and does this check. If an untaxed or uninsured car is detected, it pings up these details on the police system and the nearest squad car pulls them up straight away. All squad cars also have ANPR systems installed.
Just the forecourt system alone over here would pay for itself in no time, whilst allowing Gards resources to be available to combatting crime in more appropriate areas.
Really positive. Hopefully now we’ll see people catch on and start paying their insurance. Highlights the benefit technology can bring when done well. Red light cameras and widespread rollout of average speed cameras next, please!
On one hand, this is an insane number of drivers with no insurance.
On the other hand, I _kinda_ get it, insurance is still insanely expensive, and if you ever get into even a minor accident, say hello to double or triple premiums for the next few years.
I’m not justifying it, I’m just saying if insurance didn’t cost as much as buying another car, then more people would have it. 1500-2000 euro quotes for tiny 1.2l cars is just stupid for young drivers.
The mad thing is, it doesn’t have to be this expensive. Insurance doesnt cost this much in the UK, USA or practically anywhere in europe.
>The minister said there also needs to be a change in people’s behaviour.
There needs to be a change in the behaviour of the insurance companies scamming people out of a fortune. What happened that time the government were looking into it? They decided the insurance cost were justified? I find that very hard to believe.
This is surely a positive thing if user correctly.
How anyone in good moral conscience can drive around uninsured is beyond me.
Mad that they couldn’t do this years ago
What happens to the seized cars?
Yeah, still not paying insurance lol