If you are driving un-insured beware!

Saw this elsewhere…......

The Guardia Civil?s DGT traffic department has begun using a new system that enables them to detect whether a vehicle is insured or not simply by scanning its number plate. The force has been equipped with 12 specially adapted vehicles that will scour roads and motorways seeking out insurance dodgers and by the summer of this year that number will go up to 50.

A new computer system linked to a national database will tell officers if a vehicle is covered. Using an onboard camera mounted at either the front or the rear of the vehicle, officers can scan number plates. If the number plate is not recorded on the database a message will appear on a screen and a voice will announce ?Attention, this vehicle is not insured?.

If they get a negative alert officers will detain the vehicle and issue a fine. Uninsured scooter drivers will face a 1,000 euro fine, motorcyclists 1,250 euros, car drivers 1,500 euros and drivers of heavy goods vehicles 2,600 euros. DGT officers can also impound vehicles if they wish to.

Is this system for Spanish plates only ?

I assume so yes. But the Guardia have purges every so often (around here anyway) and stop the foreign cars.

This is a educated guess and I can’t be sure, but I would assume that this database in constructed by the Under writers who insure the vehicles and therefore both English and Spanish Plated vehicles will be picked up by this system. I will look into this a bit more and provide an update if possible.