Despite the huge increase in automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) camera systems, which read a cars number plate and can immediately determine if the vehicle is taxed and insured, there are still an estimated two million or more untaxed vehicles on the roads of the UK.
The amount of untaxed vehicles has gradually risen over the last seven years or so by a huge sixty three per cent. But at the same time the amount of successful prosecutions has almost gone down by around fifty per cent over the same period.
Conservative transport spokeswoman Theresa Villers, said: “Rogue drivers without tax or insurance are a menace to other road users. The direct result of Labour’s incompetence in dealing with rogue drivers is that our roads are more dangerous.”
The governments own figures show that in 1999 there were around 1.3 million untaxed vehicles on the road, yet by 2006 this has risen to 2.1 million. While those drivers caught either through their number plates showing up or by other means has fallen from 204,606 to 103,108 over the same period.
The government are looking to change the law to allow the DVLA and Police to check the number plates of cars that are off the road, yet it would seem that those who are considered to be persistent offenders are likely to be off the ANPR radar.
Source [Autocar]
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