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Action on Uninsured Driving
MERSEYSIDE Police are teaming up with
MIB (Motor Insurers’ Bureau) in a national week of action, running from 17
October to 23 October 2016, aimed at tackling uninsured driving.
Operation Drive Insured is the 1st national
week of its kind and Police Officers across Merseyside will be engaged in the
operation.
Ashton West, the MIB’s Chief Executive said:- “We are pleased to be
running the first Operation Drive Insured with the National Roads Policing
Intelligence Forum and police forces to help raise awareness of the consequences
of uninsured driving. The work of MIB and the Police is essential in dealing
with uninsured driving. This week is a concerted effort to tackle an estimated
one million uninsured drivers still driving illegally on our roads.”
Sergeant Dave Yorke from Merseyside Police Roads Policing Department said:-
“20% of the most serious collisions across Merseyside in the last year have
involved a driver who either wasn’t insured or licenced correctly and it is
these risk taking drivers we intend to take off the road. Please take the time
to check your driving licence and insurance is current, to avoid being targeted
this week.”
Anyone with information on persons driving without a licence or without
insurance can call Crimestoppers on:- 0800 555 111 or report it online.. |
