One British metropolis took 5 places successful the apical 15 rankings
- Henry Martin, Freelance Reporter
- Published: 19:57, 12 Nov 2024
- Updated: 19:58, 12 Nov 2024
BRITAIN'S worst hotspots for dodgy driving person been revealed - does your neighbourhood feature?
New information from the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) has uncovered the worst offending areas for uninsured driving crossed the country.
Birmingham is the wide leader, with the 2 worst hotspots - the B11 and B21 postal areas - taken by the city.
Five of the apical 15 places are taken by Birmingham postcodes.
The DA17 postcode successful Bexley takes 3rd place, with Wolverhampton's WV2 coming successful fourth.
NE29 successful North Tyneside is fifth, and Buckinghamshire's HP12 takes the fig six spot.
Seventh is the B18 Birmingham postcode, with SK1 successful Stockport successful eighth place.
Number 9 is Birmingham erstwhile again - the B8 postcode specifically.
Tenth is WS4 successful Walsall.
Eleventh is CV7, Solihull, with BL7 successful Bolton coming successful twelfth.
Birmingham appears erstwhile again with the B33 postcode taking fig 13.
Doncaster's DN8 is fourteenth, and yet Milton Keynes' MK7 takes the fifteenth spot.
Man deed by a BUS which mounted pavement earlier helium hops close up and walks consecutive into pub arsenic resurfaced clip leaves radical stunned
The rankings are based connected 2 years' worthy of MIB assertion data.
The illustration was released connected Monday to coincide with their yearly ‘Operation Drive Insured’ campaign.
This week-long captious roadworthy information initiative, moving 11-17 November, sees MIB collaborating with each UK constabulary forces to get uninsured drivers disconnected the road.
Along with the rankings, the MIB released the communicative of Ian Lee, who was connected his mode location from the bureau erstwhile helium was deed by a stolen lorry.
He said: "I’d conscionable acceptable disconnected from the postulation lights and, each of a sudden, determination was an almighty crash.
"There were shards of solid each implicit the rider spot and dashboard.
"I was shunted implicit to the different broadside of the roadworthy and it was each spot of a blur. I got retired to person a look and saw this lorry connected my car.”
Ian did not initially announcement immoderate injuries – helium was conscionable grateful to beryllium capable to locomotion away.
But the adjacent morning, helium realised thing wasn’t right. His enarthrosis wounded and helium was lone capable to assistance his limb portion of the mode into the air.
Ian needed injections into his enarthrosis implicit the coming months, and helium tin inactive consciousness the wounded to this day.
Ian called his security institution from the roadside. As the lorry was stolen, with cloned plates and the drivers obscurity to beryllium seen, his insurers provided archetypal enactment earlier advising him to interaction MIB.
They past started the process to get Ian compensation for the injuries helium received.
Ian said: “It allowed maine to deliberation astir getting connected with life.
"You've got bills to wage and you don't truly privation to get into indebtedness done thing that's not your ain fault.
"Getting a assertion from MIB decidedly helped to alleviate immoderate of the accent that was involved.
“When I look back, really I was really, truly fortunate to get retired of that one. I’d beryllium overmuch happier if determination were nary uninsured drivers connected the road.”
While Ian was capable to locomotion distant from his collision with an uninsured driver, galore are not truthful lucky.
Every 20 minutes idiosyncratic successful the UK is deed by an uninsured oregon hit-and-run operator and, tragically, each time astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic suffers injuries truthful terrible they request life-long care, the MIB says.