Nottinghamshire drivers who borrow a car warned about having correct insurance
Drivers who borrow a car warned over dangers of getting insurance policy wrong
Drivers around Nottinghamshire who borrow a friend's car are being warned they could face a £419 bill and lose their licence, as police begin Operation Drive Insured, a week-long national crackdown on uninsured driving.
Courts in the Nottinghamshire force area convicted 1,720 drivers of driving without insurance last year, down 3.1 per cent on 2024, according to Ministry of Justice records analysed by Temp Insurance UK.
The operation, led by the Motor Insurers' Bureau with police forces across the UK, runs until Sunday 15 November. Officers stop suspected uninsured vehicles and can seize them at the roadside. Last year's operation took 4,654 cars off the road.
Chris Richards, founder of Temp Insurance UK, said: "Thousands of the drivers in these figures are not criminals. They are young people who borrowed a car, thought their own insurance covered them, and found out at the roadside that it did not.
"Most comprehensive policies no longer let you drive another car. Hardly anyone knows that until they are standing on the hard shoulder watching their mate's car go onto a recovery truck."
Temp Insurance UK's full analysis, including figures for all 42 police force areas, is available online.