• The offence of being the 'keeper of an uninsured vehicle' was introduced in the Road Safety Act (2006)
• Continuous Insurance Enforcement came into force in 2011.
• There are still around a million uninsured drivers on our roads costing you and every other honest driver an average £30 a year on your insurance.
• That £30 goes to fund payments to victims of uninsured drivers made by the Motor Insurance Bureau (MIB).
• More than 2 million warning letters have been sent to drivers whose car was neither insured or SORN'd.
• There are around 6,000 prosecutions for keeping an uninsured vehicle every month.

V8bob said:

That is not the case.
There was a new law….
The AA make it simpler reading and say the following:

Unless you've registered your vehicle as off the road (Statutory Off Road Notification/SORN) or it's in the process of being transferred to a new keeper by DVLA, it must be insured.

• The offence of being the 'keeper of an uninsured vehicle' was introduced in the Road Safety Act (2006)
• Continuous Insurance Enforcement came into force in 2011.
• There are still around a million uninsured drivers on our roads costing you and every other honest driver an average £30 a year on your insurance.
• That £30 goes to fund payments to victims of uninsured drivers made by the Motor Insurance Bureau (MIB).
• More than 2 million warning letters have been sent to drivers whose car was neither insured or SORN'd.
• There are around 6,000 prosecutions for keeping an uninsured vehicle every month.

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Landyfella said:

Just got my V5 back. Car now historic tax so free. Bizarrely the car also has 12 month tax on it even though it is currently not insured. So much for them checking properly. I didn’t apply for tax just to change the class. Cars all in bit anyway being restored so no issue anyway mister plod!

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Shippers said:

You need to SORN it...

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