The Motor Insurers’ Bureau (MIB) has announced a £5 million investment to increase its work to get uninsured drivers off the roads sooner and make roads safer.
Since 2005, MIB has worked with the Government, insurers and the police to seize more than 2.5 million uninsured vehicles.
However, it says uninsured driving remains a huge problem in society, causing devastation to innocent victims and their families
The significant investment is designed to scale up the MIBs work in getting uninsured drivers off the road. This includes funding to continue its existing projects, including Operation Tutelage, as well as money for new initiatives beginning in 2024.
Martin Saunders, from the MIB, is leading the programme. He said: “We’ve made good progress in a short space of time. We’ve expanded our enforcement team to support and equip the police at the roadside, committed to fund Operational Tutelage for another three years, and have already started work to refresh the way we work with the DVLA to compare a list of vehicles on the road with those that carry insurance to help identify problem vehicles and inform motorists to buy insurance.
“But there’s lots more we’re going to do. We’ll have a big focus on leveraging technologies and data in our digital world such as utilising predictive analytics; better informed ‘hotspots’ and establishing partnerships with those who we believe can help tackle the uninsured problem.”
James Dalton, chief services officer at MIB, says this new investment will help to achieve MIB’s long-term vision to end uninsured driving for good.
Mr Dalton added: “Uninsured driving has huge physical, emotional and economic impact, so we have to do all we can to turn our vision into reality and make driving without insurance a thing of the past.
“We know there is a clear link between those who choose to drive without insurance and other forms of criminality. Burglaries, drug offences, violent crime – these are people we don’t want on the roads because they pose a real danger to all of us.
“We’ve got huge plans to test and trial new ideas to come up with the most effective package of initiatives that make sure uninsured drivers have nowhere to hide and we can get them off the roads before it’s too late.”
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