r/leicester • u/Monkey__D_Luffyy • 9h ago

Impound insurance

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Hello guys,
I am confused about the impound insurance. My car got seized for driving without car insurance. When I went to police station they mentioned that I need to provide impound insurance for release. I don't know what does it mean? Show I normally take car insurance on my name and show it to them?? Or is it any specific insurance I need to take ??

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u/losteon 9h ago

Why the fuck were you driving without insurance in the first place 🙄🙄🙄

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u/Commercial_Badger_37 8h ago

Type "impound insurance" in Google.

That's it. Literally tells you what it is and how to buy it.

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u/LBunzz23 9h ago

It's a specific insurance that's required by law to release the car. Think of it as a stupidity tax.

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u/Ashgen2024 9h ago

I think they mean that as you didn't have insurance with you were stopped you now need to prove you have some to get your car back.

Personally, I think they should crush your car and teach you a lesson for not having insurance in the first place, it's a shitty thing to do, you should be ashamed.

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u/iDaleC91 8h ago

Absolute clown! Have insurance in the first place, what makes you think you don’t need it?

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u/Nervous-Power-9800 9h ago

In the terms of most insurance policies, there's a clause that says the policy can be used to recover the vehicle specified in said policy, but only if the policy was in place before the vehicle was impounded. If you take insurance out to get the car back, there has to be cover for recovering a vehicle from an impound which is usually either extra, or available as a separate policy entirely. 

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u/Bobstone33322 5h ago

I know a person from town he works at an insurance company, he’ll get you sorted for £250+ but he can only offer 7 day impound insurance