Lazy-Ferret
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I've kept out of this discussion so far...
...okay, now for my two pence worth!
I drive a large white Transit van daily. It is my vehicle, not a "Company Vehicle", I do property maintenance.
It is getting to the point that on a daily basis, someone does something really stupid around me:
Overtaking on a blind bend/hill,
Cutting in just as I get to a junction/roundabout,
Texting on their phone,
Rifling through their glovebox,
you get the picture.
As I said, this is getting more common. My gut feeling is that sooner or later , one of these turnips is going to doing something that is going to result in damage to my van or something similar which will cost me time and therefore money. I don't get paid if I don't work.
I do have protected NCB, but that doesn't mean my premiums won't go up if the insurance company can't prove it wasn't my fault. If having a dash cam can stop my premium going up and enable me to recover my policy excess, then so much the better. It also may mean that I can recover lost income if I am off the road, or injured.
I don't really want to go down this road, but with the overall standard of driver ability plummeting like VW shares I feel that I may have to get one.
+1
As said last time this came up, it really does depend on when, where and how far you drive...
Down this end of the country, specifically in Sevenoaks, and the surrounding areas, we have a huge amount of people who have never taken a driving test in the UK, both living here, and visiting. Couple that with the issues relating to the ageing retired community members, who really should have surrendered their licences, as they are just too old and not with it enough to be driving. In the last couple of months, the local paper has reported on 3 OAPS who have had their licences removed after causing nasty accidents.
