Month: December 2024

A “chop shop” located near Stansted Airport leads officers to find stolen vehicles and car parts valued at £400K and two men arrested.

Ageas, one of the UK’s largest motor insurers, has identified a worrying increase in so-called ‘Crash for Cash’ scams involving cars and mopeds, with a significant rise in suspected incidents in the Bristol area, specifically Bishopston.  This type of fraud sees moped riders deliberately manoeuvring their vehicles into the path of reversing vehicles, often vans, to induce an impact and then claim for damage and injuries.

New AA analysis has revealed that young drivers are significantly over-represented in fatal crashes during December evenings.

The data has been released as a warning to younger drivers ahead of the Christmas party season.

It found that young drivers (17-20) were involved in a fifth (19%) of night-time fatal collisions last December, despite this age group making up just 2.4% of licence holders.

Overall, drunk drivers are involved in nearly a fifth (18%) of all fatalities on UK roads. This equates to an estimated 280 fatal drink-drive collisions in 2022, the highest level since 2009. Impairment by drugs is listed in 6.2% of fatal collisions.

Encouragingly, an AA/Yonder poll revealed that many drivers are now turning to zero-alcohol options to avoid drink driving, with more than four-fifths (83%) saying the range of zero-alcohol drinks now means there is no excuse for drink driving.

New research by Citizens Advice has revealed that 2.6 million people in the UK don’t drive because they’re unable to afford car insurance costs.

This includes almost 900,000 drivers who have had to cancel their cover in the last 12 months, in addition to 1.7m people who have been priced out of the market for longer than a year.

Of those who have cancelled policies in the last 12 months, 77% reported that this had a negative impact on their day-to-day life.