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Westpig (good name!) is right. Far too many people in cars not registered. Very difficult if not impossible to trace them. Don't know that I have a solution but in Switzerland you have a plate allocated to YOU. Goes on with you each time you get a new car. Presumably you can have more than one?? And I'd tighten up on disqualified drivers - there needs to be a realistic penalty for flouting a ban. I know prison space is non existent, but further ban is just farcical, when they ignore the first one... Please, don't get me started!!
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Agree with Westpig and woodster. If there are as many uninsured drivers, unlicensed drivers and unregistered cars around as people keep saying then there should be an effective purge, simply because they must pose a significant physical and financial threat to legal motorists although legal motorists themselves are probably more of a threat really (but don't get me started on them).
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realistic penalty for flouting a ban.
Similar for no insurance. It should work the same way as the fine businesses get for flouting software licensing. Calculate the amount of money saved by the offender from the last day he can prove he was legal to the date he was caught, multiply it by something frightening, and then add a percentage.
The idea that someone can drive around uninsured for years and then get a £200 fine when caught is laughable. Worth the risk if you're that way inclined.
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There is no real scary punishment for no insurance - there are plenty of remote scottish islands to house these people if one wants to put them inside, or atleast put them somewhere they cant escape from. Wouldnt even need a prison and if any prsioner did manage to swim ten miles to the mainland, good luck to them.
The vast majority of punishments for traffic offenses seem to make a mockery of the people who arrest them, id find it quite demoralising.
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The fine for having no insurance seems always to be much less than the premium would have been. So where's the incentive to the 18 year old scrote with a souped-up buzzbox? It's cheaper to pay the fines in the unlikely event of getting caught.
Edited by nick on 10/10/2008 at 19:07
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Stunorthants - you'd be demoralised if being a copper was a vocation. It ain't, it's an occupation. I hate the cliche, but at the end of the day the public at large are the losers when there is no effective deterrent. But the coppers still get paid. Targets and lack of discretion along with vast political interference have turned it into a job, just like any other.
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I know prison space is non existent but further ban is just farcical when they ignore the first one... Please don't get me started!!
Having spent 21 years in the Royal Navy, I dont know why prisons are overcrowded.
Give a sailor a 12 x 12 feet area and he will install 12 beds and lockers to keep all the kit in.
Where is the problem with that, it may even stop some scrotes wanting to go back in.
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You'll go to hell for that one :)
In an, apparently, uninsured handcart.
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The law that can see you arrested & prosecuted if you as a victim use too much force to try to defend or protect another, your home or other items that you value & cherish.
Edited by Pugugly on 10/10/2008 at 19:40
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It would seem that 'proper' motoring threads are few and far between these days. HJ has become Police online. :)
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Pity those who have to read every post !
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I have to do it in my 'other' job!! :)
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I thought traffic cops and traffic law was proper motoring - clearly not. I shall remember that it is just a job and treat them with the same attitude I would any other miserable so-and-so who is just doing a random job to pay the bills.
Its a shame to think that the roads could be policed by people who dont have any interest in what they are doing though.
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