Gosh! If it's that harsh a punishment you'd think that the drivers of the 300,000 uninsured vehicles driving each day on our roads, and the 1 million drivers caught each year, would tow the line. Perhaps they don't know that they need insurance...
In June a 20-year uninsured driver caused a pile up on the A1, injuring 7 pursuing police officers and damaging 5 police cars. Despite being given an interim ban, he was again driving uninsured immediately after the incident. He received a sentence of 14 months in a young offenders establishment...meanwhile, 31 months dished out to Lucy Connelly for a tweet.