Police clamp vehicles with no tax, car insurance cover

A number of vehicles found to have no tax certificate and potentially no car insurance cover have been clamped or towed by police in Swindon.

Officers in the Wiltshire town have spotted more than 70 offending vehicles so far this month, the Swindon Advertiser reports.

Many of the untaxed automobiles are thought to be without car insurance because such documentation would be required to pay for tax.

Chief Inspector Nick Elton, head of Wiltshire Police's Roads Policing Unit, said: "By confiscating untaxed vehicles the DVLA is reducing the number of potentially dangerous, uninsured and un-roadworthy vehicles on our roads, helping to make them safer places."

Officers have been aided in the crackdown by automatic number plate recognition technology, which is currently also being employed by police in Lancashire who have launched an operation to reduce the number of people found driving without car insurance.

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