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UK law does not require a driver to carry any form of identification with them and they are given five days to produce these details if they happen to be stopped by police. Although this is perfectly fine for the police it can cause a problem if you want to see a drivers documentation if you have been involved in an accident. Drivers normally swap insurance details if there is an accident but without the proof, you cannot be sure of the other car’s insurance details.

Fortunately you can check if there is any insurance on a car. You can use certain websites to check the a car and whether it is insured or not. In order to stop the amount of insurance fraud that was occurring, this system was developed. Often people would insure their used car with two different companies, stage an accident and then they could make two claims. Insurance companies decided to share policy details with each other to prevent this problem from continuing. That is why the Motor Insurance Database was developed which is a database holding details of all motor insurance policies.

The Motor Insurance Database can be checked to see if a car is insured or not. But it is not possible to check other policy details to preserve the privacy of policy holders. The MID’s website can be checked as long as you have the registration number of the car you want to check. The MID website will let you know whether or not a car is insured by returning a yes or no answer. However you should be aware that some vehicles insurance details may not be updated due to delays including newly bought used cars and switching insurance providers. But you can put your mind at rest by getting someone with internet access to check on a car before you leave the scene of an accident.

When you think it’s time to look out for used cars, you are always better off trying to research your vehicles beforehand. This reserach will let you find the best cars available for each category you look at. Once you’ve finished, you could find youself driving away from the dealers in a used land rover or even a used maseratti.

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