A DRIVER took out insurance for his van in June, but police found this had been cancelled a few weeks later.

Officers from the Dorset Police No Excuse team stopped the driver in Southbourne as part of a national effort to reduce levels of uninsured drivers.

A spokesperson for the No Excuse team said: “Checks established the owner had taken out a new policy in June but this was cancelled a few weeks later, they failed to reply to the insurance company after they requested no claims discount proof.

“We could see the address details for the vehicle and insurance were not up to date, owner claimed he never received anything.

“The driver received six points and a £300 fine and the vehicle was seized.”

Operation Drive Insured, a week-long campaign developed by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB), in partnership with the National Roads Policing Operations, Intelligence and Investigation (NRPOII) committee, will see increased roads policing activity to detect and seize uninsured vehicles across regions.

Each year in the UK more than 130 people are killed and 26,000 are left injured in collisions caused by uninsured and untraced drivers, linking to nearly one in every five road traffic collisions.

 

Last year 137,410 vehicles were seized for no insurance which equated to one seizure every four minutes.