Over £5 million worth of fines have been collected from people who have been keeping a vehicle without insurancehicle without insurance since a change in the law was introduced nearly two years ago.

The change resulted in an initiative called Continuous Insurance Enforcement (CIE), supported by a partnership between the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) and the DVLA.

Under the initiative the DVLA’s records of vehicle keepers are systematically matched with the insurance record on the Motor Insurance Database – the central record of all insured vehicles in the UK. This enables the DVLA to enforce the requirement for insurance at all times and, according to the MIB, £5.1 million in fixed penalties and court fines have now been collected from the tens of thousands of owners who have admitted or been found guilty of the offence.

If you are caught driving without insurance you may be facing serious consequences. A financial penalty will always apply in instances of driving without insurance, with the amount dependent on your means and the circumstances of the offence. If convicted of driving uninsured, you may also face up to 12 months disqualification of your licence.

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If you have been charged with driving while uninsured or keeping an uninsured vehicle, and require specialist legal advice please contact our solicitors Jeffrey Lewis or Siobhain Egan on 020 7387 2032 or complete our online enquiry form here.

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