Car insurance news

Out with the old and in with the new civil enforcement officers

You’ll have no problem when it comes to getting women’s car insurance at a great price, however you may have trouble with Edna the evil traffic warden.

Traffic wardens get a lot of stick but while some will argue they are merely the doing the job they are paid to do others will dispute that they are dead set on making motorists lives a misery.

But, the government has announced that by next summer a more “driver friendly” parking system will come into force.

Traffic wardens will be re-titled ‘civil enforcement officers’ and will be asked to relax the rules a little. They will also only be allowed to clamp the cars of people who repeatedly break the rules and end up on a national computer database.

Lee-Anne Bass of CoverGirl, specialists in car insurance for women, comments: “We conducted a survey and found that 59% of our customers feel that a little bit of slack on parking rules wouldn’t go a miss. Many have been caught out when arriving back to their car a few minutes after the metre has run only to be greeted with a parking fine.

“However, you should always abide by motoring laws from parking tickets to drink-driving in order to make sure you always have a right to cheap motor insurance.”

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