REVEALED: Shocking increase in Clare motorists caught driving without insurance
'Uninsured drivers involved in accidents only serves to further increase the average cost of premiums'
There has been a 52% increase in CLARE motorists who have been caught driving without insurance from 2023 - 2024.
Ireland South MEP and member of the EU Transport committee, Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, will raise the price of insurance for Clare motorists in the Transport Committee of the European Parliament.
She has called for urgent measures to address the spike in the number of drivers caught driving without insurance in every garda district in Ireland and for the immediate implementation of the Action Plan for Insurance Reform promised in the Programme for Government.
Garda figures show that between Q2 2023 and Q2 2024 there were significant increases in the number of vehicles detained by gardaí across every county under Section 41 of the Roads Traffic Act 1994 “from a driver without an approved policy of insurance."
Cynthia Ní Mhurchú explains that high car insurance premiums may be the reason for the spike in motorists driving without insurance.
“It appears likely there is a correlation between the excessive cost of car insurance in Ireland and the spike in motorists driving without insurance. That in no way justifies a motorist driving without insurance and uninsured drivers involved in accidents only serves to further increase the average cost of premiums. The cost of car insurance has risen by over 11% in a year according to CSO figures, well above and beyond the level of inflation."