3,089 uninsured vehicles seized in first nine months of 2024

Dedicated Roads Policing Unit officers work hard to keep the roads in Essex safe for everyone.
In the first nine months of this year, with the help of colleagues from teams across the force, they have helped seize 3089 uninsured cars, vans and motorcycles.
In September, that number peaked at a staggering 406 vehicles being seized, the highest month on record.

Superintendent Phil Stinger, operational Policing Command, said:
We will continue to carry out enforcement activities through proactive patrols and activities such as Operation Scalis, a multi-agency approach to tackling uninsured vehicles on our roads with the help of the Motor Insurers Bureau, because they share our ambition to make roads safe for everyone.
This work is vital to make the roads safer and deny criminal use of our roads.
To date, we have carried out a number of days of action when our focus has been to tackle unsafe vehicles, those who have no insurance, tax or MOT, because those vehicles are some of the most dangerous on our roads.
Being roadworthy in every sense means insuring your car or van.
Intentionally uninsured drivers not only cause law-abiding drivers' insurance costs to rise, but are also linked to other risky behaviour including drink driving and speeding.
As a result of poor driving decisions, one motorist can needlessly become a victim of another driver’s carelessness. But having the correct level of insurance means they can be supported in getting their car back on the road and supported with any medical care needed.

Between August - October, Operation Scalis enforcement took place across Thurrock, the Dartford Crossing, Southend, and Chelmsford.  
During those three months, the multi-agency operation seized 60 of the total seized vehicles, including 23 untaxed and 42 with no MOT.
Make sure your vehicle is insured and play your part in keeping in making Essex roads safer.

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