This week it was revealed that 65 people are injured by uninsured drivers every week. 15 people were killed, 307 seriously injured, 3,085 injured during 2010. by uninsured drivers. That is an awful lot of people lives wrecked.

People willing to drive while uninsured (compared to insured drivers) are:

• Ten times more likely to have been convicted of drink driving
• Six times more likely to have been convicted of driving a non-road worthy vehicle
• Three times more likely to have been convicted of driving without due care and attention

On average every insured driver is paying £30 more each year to cover the costs of the uninsured.

The last league table I could find from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau showed two Southwark postcodes as the 2nd and 10th worst in the country for having uninsured drivers – Peckham SE15 has 4.33 x the UK average level of uninsured drivers and Camberwell SE5 has 3.75 x the UK average level of uninsured drivers.

Police and insurers have estimated uninsured drivers as between 1 and 5 million people. Truly astounding.

So how many live in East Dulwich?