Thieves follow stolen sat nav to driver's home

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Quote: Originally Posted by Root Ginger (original)

There is no legal requirement for you to have insurance certificate or driving license with you when driving. In fact, such is the freedom of this country, you need carry no documents at all except a tax disc. You just have to be able to produce them within seven days when asked by a police officer. The car is probably the worst place to leave any legal documentation and is better off locked away somewhere safe, like a erm... safe!

License and insurance details can be obtained very easily by the police over the phone anyway nowadays.

When I was pulled other month, he advised that I should have had both parts of the driving licence and also my certificate of insurance, although he wasn't in traffic division, just normal routine patrol.
It's not the first a normal routine car has got it wrong, likewhen they tried to say my Sidelights on the MINI were foglights!

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Unlike other EU countries, it is not a legal requirement in the UK to carry insurance documents or your driving licence. Or indeed any other car related paperwork.
The police would probably llke you to carry these documents (although all this information is now available to them through the DVLA) as no doubt a certain amount of time consuming paperwork is involved if they ask you to produce your documents at a police station. Time which would be better spent ..... errrr , well stopping other motorists I guess.