Women's insurance news
28/05/2009

Tesco trouble for drink-driver refused alcohol

It's a fact that car insurance for women drivers is likely to be cheaper than for their male counterparts, and as the media keeps showing us, it's because men tend to engage in risky driving behaviour that pushes up the price of their gender related car cover.

Recently, a man drove a Rolls-Royce into a Tesco store, apparently because the checkout staff had refused to sell him alcohol.

Witnesses present at the supermarket in Andover, Hampshire said that the driver had come into the store on foot at around 4.30pm to attempt to buy alcohol, but when he was turned away because he appeared to be already intoxicated, he got into the Rolls-Royce and drove towards the store front.

At his first attempt the driver did not get through, but, as stunned shoppers panicked and fled for cover, he reversed, revved the engine and then drove again at the plate glass windows.

This time he succeeded in ramming the store; mounting a small brick ledge and smashing into the store demolishing two checkout stands and injuring six women.

The luxury car came to a halt amongst the debris of collapsed beer and wine shelving. The 50-year-old man, thought to be the owner of a chauffeur company, sat in the car until police and paramedics arrived.

He was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and attempted murder.

To see pictures of the incident visit The Daily Mail's website.

A spokesperson for CoverGirl, specialist providers of car insurance for women, said, "The pictures are quite shocking and the risk to human life was deplorable."