Petition · past parliament

Change car insurance law to insure driver rather than vehicle for road risks

Closed 123 signatures

What the petition asks

Car insurance has been incomprehensibly expensive for years, only getting more expensive when you use your policy and make a claim. The biggest rip off from a consumer's point of view is for people who, for whatever reason, run more than one vehicle.
It is only physically possible to drive one vehicle at once so why are we paying a double premium? The largest portion of a vehicle insurance policy is Road risks so my proposition is a driver specific insurance for road risks and an optional, much smaller vehicle premium for fire and theft.

Multi car insurance policies do exist but their premiums don't represent the true risk to the insurance company, usually offering a maximum of a 25% discount in a very small number of cases.

Timeline

28 Feb 2017 Petition opened for signatures
2 May 2017 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 123
Status Closed
Opened 28 Feb 2017
Closed 2 May 2017

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.