Does lax sentencing foster the growth of an uninsured driver underclass?
As far as alarming statistics go, I think the widely-reported fact that you’re never more than 14 metres from a rat is pretty hard to beat. However, the spread of rats doesn’t cost me an extra £30 a year on my car insurance premium. The spread of uninsured drivers, on the other hand, does. And the alarming statistic to go with that? According to the Department for Transport (DfT), one in every twenty UK drivers is uninsured. That means that in heavy traffic on a three lane motorway, you’re never more than about 20 metres from an uninsured driver. I worked that one out using trigonometry. As for supplementary alarming statistics? Well, the rats put up a pretty good fight. The average rat can kill a human in 35 different ways – everything from carrying deadly diseases to chewing through electrical cables, to outright bodily attack. They cause a quarter of all urban fires. But next to the 1.5 million drivers on our roads without motor insurance, Britain’s wild rat population seems a bit,
