Drink driving 'pushes up insurance costs'
Personal insurance
24th June 2009
Insurance premiums can be pushed up by drink driving convictions and some motorists may struggle to get cover, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
A spokesperson for the organisation stated that a single drink driving conviction could "mean that many companies won't insure you, at best you'll find insurance very expensive".
He highlighted that the cost of getting behind the wheel while under the influence of alcohol is financial as well as social and legal, noting that drink-driving "could also have a very severe impact on all your premiums for many years to come".
The ABI spokesman's comments come after recent data indicated that one in three adults (34 per cent) have travelled in a car driven by someone they believed to be over the drink drive limit.
Website drinkdrivingfacts.com reports that an average of 3,000 people are killed or seriously injured in drink-drive collisions each year, with almost one in six road deaths involving drivers outside the legal alcohol boundary.
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