DVLA RECORD CHAOS
29 July 2005 - Safe Speed

In an astonishing admission of ineptitude the DVLA appear to be warning that they are on the verge of losing control of the vehicle registration process - an astonishing 32% of vehicle records contain incorrect information.

In a recently issued press release the DVLA cited the need to for owners to receive product recall notices as the reason for people to observe registration requirements. Safe Speed believes that their PR is pure desperation!

Only about 1% of accidents result from mechanical failure, and far fewer than that result from failures associated with product recall notices. Even with the gross errors at DVLA, many recall defects will be picked up in routine servicing. Safe Speed estimates the crash potential from the defective DVLA records at well under 10 crashes per year - and it may well be zero.

Paul Smith, founder of the Safe Speed road safety campaign
(www.safespeed.org.uk) said: ''The truth is that the more we load up the motoring public with endless and needless fines for speeding, parking and congestion charging, the more they are going to find themselves better off staying outside the system.''

''While I''m sure that errors at DVLA must take some of the blame, it should have been completely obvious to policy makers that automated and indiscriminate enforcement would have incorrect registration information as a side effect.''

''This situation will not improve until the Government admits its errors and embraces road users in policies that improve ordinary peoples'' travelling experience. They must learn to consider the side effects of their policies.''

''Automated and indiscriminate enforcement has created a giant underclass of outlaw road users who find that evading registration requirements is very much in their interests. It was reckless and careless of Government to create this situation.''

''Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is all set to become another shattered dream due to faulty registration records.''

www.safespeed.org.uk

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