Does anyone have the web address for this? Google has not come up with anything, I need to check if a car is insured or not

Thank you

 

data protection springs to mind!!!!!!!!!!!-----how do you propose to infiltrate insurance company files/???????-----you are boardering on illegal activities here-
if this concerns an accident deal with insurures /police,
no details regarding personel insurance detals should be published here
--------MODERATORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

There is a website you can go on and check,, mike r put the link up a while ago

 

it's ask mid or soemthing

all it will tell you is if the vehicle is currently insuraed or not, nothing else

 

 

here u go m8

http://askmid.com/askmid.aspx

 

http://www.askmid.com/askmid.aspx

Cheers dojj

 

Cheers too

 

just checked out my transit and appreantly it's a transit sport

what are one of them then?

 

LOL@ my car NOT being on the askmid register

 

Aaron is actually correct, read the disclaimer on AskMid - if not checking your own vehicle you ARE committing an offence

 

Don't tell me you haven't

 

I was merely clarifying the legalities

 

 

No tax either?

You pikey

 

and what reason would you have for checking to see if your own vehicle was insured? unless your some sort of idiot who cant remember what they do on a daily basis then its purely a legal disclaimer to cover their own arses not really the ones using the site..

 

Fuzzy, not arguing with you lol - I just pointed out after someone said the other chap was wrong, that he wasn't.

Obviously they put the site online knowing people would use it to check if other people are insured (if that gets uninsured drivers off our roads, then it's no bad thing) - that doesn't change the legal side of things in any way.

Also, for private insurance customers, the insurance agent/company are legally responsible for updating the database - not all insurance companies are very effective at doing this in the required timeframe, which could lead to unecessary difficulties if you're stopped by the police...

 

my appologies mate ,it wasnt meant to sound like an argument more a question as to what purpose are they pretending its for rather than the reality of checking up on your neighbours?

 

Or checking details of someone you've had a crash with etc...

 

i suppose. but the police will do that.that site gives no detail only whether insured or not and ive known it to be a week out of date.

 

No worries Fuzzy, i may have been over sensitive (shoot the messenger and all that).

The real reasons it's there, are for the reasons we've all come to, imo - there's no need for it to be a public site whatsoever. The police and relevant insurers who may need the info, already have access to it....

Normally, data protection requirements are to be met by the body holding the data, not by anyone saying "Yes, I will only use this info within the legal requirements" by ticking a box on a web page, lol.

 

they have the go faster st stripes on them

 

It's shockingly incomplete too. I got pulled cos i wasn't on it - i had to call my insurance company there and then, who confirmed i was insured - and have been for 11 years.... A friend of mine was the same - it seems that there is no automated/standard system for updating it.

 

Rick, it's the insurance co's responsibility to add the details, except for traders who have access (and responsibility) to add the info - both within 7 days.