Driver wrongly accused of having no car insurance

A newspaper reporter feels she has been treated like a criminal after being wrongly accused by police of driving with no car insurance, reports the paper for whom she works, the Bucks Free Press.

Hannah Williams was pulled over by police after their Automatic Number Plate Recognition camera said she failed to have car insurance.

The 22-year-old was unable to prove she did have insurance and so the police confiscated her Ford Fiesta and left her at the side of the road to make her own way back to the office.

It turned out that her car insurance company Norwich Union had failed to update the national insurance database with her insurance details and thus the motorist was unable to prove her insurance.

She said: "It makes me feel very angry that such a mistake can leave you stranded on the side of the road.

"When the police said I wasn't insured and said they would have to seize my car, my eyes almost popped out of my head. They asked me to sit in the back of a police car. It made me feel like a criminal."

Research last month from comparethemarket.com found that a law-abiding motorist is having to pay an extra £31 on their car insurance quote to cover uninsured drivers.

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