A cheap van insurer tells it straight!

Here's something I bet not a lot of you cheap van insurers knew - one in five accidents involving the key ingredients of a van, and its fabled driver, result in serious injury. Or death. And between 2000 and 2004 there were an average of 908 crashes each year involving light goods vehicles. Of those, an average of 184 resulted in death or serious injury. This, my cheap van insuring followers, is according to the Chief Police Officers Association, which is somewhere off the high street near the British Legion I'm told. The beers not as cheap, but the snooker tables are top notch as you'd expect. Members on t'other side of Hadrian's neighbourly divide think that van drivers are rubbish. Not all van drivers obviously, and possibly not the cheap van insuring variety that make up this sensible readership; but that's why they're scribbling down ideas for a new road safety campaign aimed at those who like to decorate their company vehicle with pages of the Sunday Sport, confectionary wrappers and puss that weeps from the face of their drivers mates.

McPlod cite speeding, ignorance of seatbelts and transporting passengers unsafely in the back of their cheaply insured (or otherwise) vans as being the main reasons tragedy follows them around like Japanese teenagers at a McFly concert. Three men, well, the owner driver and a couple of delinquents as is often the case, are often seen sitting across the front bench of their light commercial vehicle, minus their strap on. Which is a pity. For them anyway, should they be involved in a little accident. Danger for cheap van insurers (and those that don't) also comes in the form of people unsecured in the back of vans too say McPlod, and cite one such recent discovery as a good example. How one arresting officer observed something suspicious about a van travelling somewhere in Scotland . The finger of suspicion on this particular occasion being pointed squarely at the bloke standing in the back of the van clinging precariously onto a cooker to maintain his balance. Whilst the driver continued his journey.

Officers across Scotland are set to mount high visibility patrols from this week, which we believe will means fluorescent jackets, fluorescent cars and large speed guns - the sort of things that can so easily go unnoticed if I hadn't told you to be extra vigilant. Thing is, there are many breeds of white van man nowadays, not just the stereotypical ones of yore. That said, they do have the one obvious attribute in common. A fact that hasn't been lost on Neil Grieg, stirring things on behalf of the AA Motoring Trust, who was heard to whimper this, meekly, from behind the coat-tails of someone much bigger:" Not all van drivers are big tattooed men speeding and breaking the law." Ouch. But the same rules apply, and McPlod are setting out their law-abiding stall on roadsides near you soon. You've been warned. For those van drivers playing by the rules or not, Vancover.co.uk will do their level best to find you the cheapest van insurance out there, which should cover you for every eventuality.

Date - 21/09/2006