Top 15 uninsured driving areas revealed, as Operation Drive Insured returns for 2024

Whilst West Midlands postal areas account for eight of the top 15 hotspots, postcodes within Northumbria, London, Thames Valley, South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester also feature.

Top 15 postal hotspots for uninsured driving

Based on 2 years of MIB claim data

Rank	Postal area	Location
1	B11	Birmingham
2	B21	Birmingham
3	DA17	Bexley
4	WV2	Wolverhampton
5	NE29	North Tyneside
6	HP12	Buckinghamshire
7	B18	Birmingham
8	SK1	Stockport
9	B8	Birmingham
10	WS4	Walsall
11	CV7	Solihull
12	BL7	Bolton
13	B33	Birmingham
14	DN8	Doncaster
15	MK7	Milton Keynes

 

Operation Drive Insured is an annual, vital road safety initiative, running all this week (11-17 November). It sees MIB collaborate with all UK police forces to get uninsured drivers off the road.

Road policing units across the UK will be carrying out additional checks on motorists in their respective problem areas, in a bit to tackle the plague of uninsured drivers. Forces will utilise data provided by MIB and partners to focus their efforts. This will include:

• Navigate, the central record of all active motor insurance policies which is managed by MIB.
• Operation Tutelage markers, where cars passing ANPR cameras on previous occasions have been compared to data held on Navigate. Uninsured vehicles with an Operation Tutelage marker are then flagged to police and dealt with roadside. 
• Using police intelligence and analysis to predict the movements of known uninsured vehicles.

So far this year, almost 115,000 uninsured drivers have had their vehicle seized through the work of MIB in conjunction with police.

 

Help spread the word

We understand that motorists who aim to be law-abiding may unwittingly fall into an uninsured status, so we aim to educate on the insurance pitfalls and consequences that they may fall foul of.

With your help, as well as that of police forces, our message reached 1.6 million people via organic social media last year. This is amazing but, of course, we'd like to reach even more of the driving population this year.

If you haven't yet downloaded our partnership pack, please click below. It has all you need to help amplify our message on your organisational or personal social channels:

• Further information about Operation Drive Insured
• Starter-for-ten social posts, to get the creative juices flowing
• Facts, stats and key messages regarding uninsured driving
• Images, videos and GIFs