Uninsured driver clampdown 'will reduce traffic accident rate'RSS Feed

The government's crackdown on uninsured drivers will reduce the number of road traffic accident deaths, it has been claimed.

A new law - Continuous Insurance Enforcement - that requires all vehicles to have insurance regardless of whether they are in use or not, will save lives, the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety said.

Accident claims caused by uninsured drivers increase costs for honest motorists, according to the body's executive director Robert Gifford.

"Given that there is a connection linked between driving uninsured and having a crash resulting in injury, this is a move that ought, in the long term, to improve road safety," Mr Gifford explained.

He went to argue that a further reduction in traffic accident deaths could be obtained by reducing the drink driver limit.

Reducing the limit from 80 to 50 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood would save between 45 and 55 lives a year, Mr Gifford said.

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