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Technology to crackdown on uninsured drivers
Wed, 11 Aug 04
Better use of technology is needed in order to crack down on uninsured motorists, according to the author of a government-backed report into the problem.
Professor David Greenaway's comments come as the government outlines a tough new approach to target the estimated 1 million motorists on UK roads driving without insurance.
Official figures show that such drivers are ten times more likely to have been convicted of drink driving and six times more likely to have been convicted of driving an unsafe vehicle.
Professor Greenaway said that a more joined up approach would mean that uninsured drivers would stand a much greater chance of getting caught.
"That means linking the insurance databases that we have and making them more reliable, tying them into the police national computer and into the kind of technology that police forces have, so-called automatic number plate recognition," he told the Today programme.
"A lot of uninsured drivers take the view that the chances of being detected are pretty low at the moment, and therefore it is quite a sensible economic calculation (not to take out insurance)."
One of the more radical measures that is due to be announced today is the plan to allow the police to confiscate and even destroy cars of persistent offenders.
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