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Uninsured van driver escapes with £600 fine
Mon, 24 Apr 2006
A van driver from Ware in Herefordshire has been fined £600 for driving without van insurance worth £3,000.
Twenty-year-old David Irons, who already had six convictions for driving without insurance on his Ford Escort van, has been banned from driving on two previous occasions.
It is estimated that had Mr Irons paid his van insurance he would have had to cough up over £3,000, instead of the £600 fine imposed by the court.
Driver's groups condemned the judges for failing to impose the maximum fine of £5,000 allowed for driving without car insurance.
Speaking to the Herefordshire Mercury, a spokesman for the RAC Foundation driver's group said: "To fine an uninsured driver less than they would have to pay to be insured is a total disincentive for them.
"We've called for fines to be a real deterrent, otherwise, as with this case, the driver will gamble that any fine will be less than the insurance," he added.
It is estimated that currently one in every 20 cars on Britain's roads is uninsured, resulting in UK motorists paying up to £30 pounds a year more on their car insurance premiums to cover the costs of their accidents.
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