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10th January 2011
Eco-safe driving
The Driving Standards Agency has added a 'How to be an eco-safe driver' video on Youtube. It gives tips on how to drive eco-safely, which will help reduce your fuel consumption and vehicle emissions.
Eco-safe driving
The Driving Standards Agency has added a 'How to be an eco-safe driver' video on Youtube. It gives tips on how to drive eco-safely, which will help reduce your fuel consumption and vehicle emissions.
11th January 2011
Uninsured drivers
Road Safety Minister Mike Penning today announced that new powers to tackle uninsured driving will come into force within months. It will become an offence to keep an uninsured vehicle, rather than just to drive when uninsured as is the case at the moment.
Uninsured and untraced drivers are estimated to kill 160 people and injure 23,000 every year. As a result, every responsible driver pays on average £30 in their insurance premiums to cover crashes involving uninsured and untraced drivers.
Under the new system :
Uninsured drivers
Road Safety Minister Mike Penning today announced that new powers to tackle uninsured driving will come into force within months. It will become an offence to keep an uninsured vehicle, rather than just to drive when uninsured as is the case at the moment.
Uninsured and untraced drivers are estimated to kill 160 people and injure 23,000 every year. As a result, every responsible driver pays on average £30 in their insurance premiums to cover crashes involving uninsured and untraced drivers.
Under the new system :
- the DVLA will work in partnership with the Motor Insurers' Bureau to identify uninsured vehicles
- warning letters will be issued to motorists whose vehicle appears to be uninsured
- fines of £100 will be given to the keepers of vehicles who fail to insure their vehicle
- if the vehicle remains uninsured, even if the fine is paid, then it could be seized and destroyed
- vehicles with a valid Statutory Off Road Notice (SORN) will not be required to be insured
12th January 2011
Changes to ID requirements
The UK government has passed legislation cancelling identity cards for British citizens. As a result, from the 21st January, any identity cards that have already been issued will no longer be legal forms of identification. Therefore you'll no longer be able to use an identity card as a means of proving your identity for a practical driving test.
If you don't have a photo card licence and paper counterpart to prove your identity but you do have an old style paper licence, then you must bring this along with a valid passport.
Changes to ID requirements
The UK government has passed legislation cancelling identity cards for British citizens. As a result, from the 21st January, any identity cards that have already been issued will no longer be legal forms of identification. Therefore you'll no longer be able to use an identity card as a means of proving your identity for a practical driving test.
If you don't have a photo card licence and paper counterpart to prove your identity but you do have an old style paper licence, then you must bring this along with a valid passport.
