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Crackdown on uninsured drivers leads to 19,000 vehicle seizures
A motor insurance database has been heralded as a “new dawn” after its use by gardaí led to a huge spike in the number of vehicles being seized.
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A motor insurance database has been heralded as a “new dawn” after its use by gardaí led to a huge spike in the number of vehicles being seized.
A total of 18,676 uninsured vehicles were seized by gardaí last year, a 67pc increase on the 2023 number.
The increase has been attributed to the introduction of the Irish Motor Insurance Database (IMID) last year.
It was set up to provide motor insurance details for all vehicles on Irish roads.
It allows gardaí at checkpoints to identify any uninsured vehicles within seconds through their hand-held mobile devices or via automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) systems.
What happens them? They should be confiscated and sold. That would reduce the amount of uninsured driving significantly.