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Driving with no insurance

  • 12-11-2013 3:14pm
    #1
    VONSHIRACH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭


    What do people think in general of drivers who drive with no insurance?

    Would you go as far as report the offending vehicle's reg number to the Gardai?

    I saw a neighbour drive a van today, he did a u-turn on the main road, 4 year old kid in the front passenger seat. The vehicle has an insurance disc expired last Feb and an expired motor tax disc also. He obviously has evaded detection from any routine checkpoint.


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  • #2
    schemingbohemia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,606 ✭✭✭schemingbohemia


    Report them, our insurance premia are more expensive because of them.


  • #3
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,429 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Don't think anything 'in general' of uninsured drivers. Think quite specifically though, that they should be made push the start button on the crusher their car is loaded into, and should then pay for the cost of the crushing, wait ten years, and then take their driving test again.


  • #4
    whippet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,724 ✭✭✭whippet


    VONSHIRACH wrote: »
    What do people think in general of drivers who drive with no insurance?

    Would you go as far as report the offending vehicle's reg number to the Gardai?

    I saw a neighbour drive a van today, he did a u-turn on the main road, 4 year old kid in the front passenger seat. The vehicle has an insurance disc expired last Feb and an expired motor tax disc also. He obviously has evaded detection from any routine checkpoint.

    The only assumption that you can make is that the Insurance disc isn't up to date. There might well be a valid insurance policy in place but the disc isn't in the window.

    That aside - Driving without insurance costs everyone else money, should you report it? that is up to you, personally I wouldn't have a problem with reporting it. In 15 years of driving I never once went on the road without being 100% sure I was covered by insurance.


  • #5
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    endacl wrote: »
    Don't think anything 'in general' of uninsured drivers. Think quite specifically though, that they should be made push the start button on the crusher their car is loaded into, and should then pay for the cost of the crushing, wait ten years, and then take their driving test again.

    What if they don't own a car?


  • #6
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,429 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Carawaystick wrote: »
    What if they don't own a car?

    Then they'd have to explain the crushing to the owner of the car. Unless it was stolen. If the car was stolen, the uninsured driver goes in the crusher. And they still have to press the start button.

    ;)


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