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Tories claim the DVLA errors encouraging cheap car insurance dodgers

According to the Conservative Party, databases at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) currently hold the wrong details on about one in five UK drivers - a fact which could be encouraging motorists to flout the law by avoiding cheap car insurance and road tax payments.

The shadow transport secretary claims that 7.8 million people are affected by the inaccuracies, which accounts for 18 percent of the country's drivers.

"This is a startling figure which has worrying consequences for the safety of people on Britain's roads," he commented. "It also makes it much easier for the rogue drivers to keep on driving."

"If true, the number of errors is certainly alarming - but whether or not it increases the potential for motor insurance fraud is less clear," said Mike Page, spokesman for the cheap car insurance experts at Hoot Car Insurance Services.

"The DVLA holds a whole range of details on each driver, and the chances of you appearing to be insured on their database when in fact you aren't are still very slim. Only the most foolhardy criminal would rely on this kind of oversight to help them dodge motor insurance payments."

 

 

 

 

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