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DVLA's recall warning
More than 300,000 motorists are risking their lives as they haven't updated personal details on their driving documents. The DVLA says millions of cars with safety defects are recalled by makers each year using the V5C logbook to trace owners. But a third of certificates contain outdated information, and DVLA bosses are warning drivers to check their paperwork.
However, motoring groups ABS (Association of British Drivers) and Safe Speed have condemned the DVLA. Safe Speed's founder, Paul Smith, said: "In an astonishing admission of ineptitude the DVLA appear to be warning that they are on the verge of losing control of the vehicle registration process - an astonishing 32 per cent of vehicle records contain incorrect information.
"Only about one per cent of accidents result from mechanical failure, and far fewer than that result from failures associated with product recall notices. Even with the gross errors at DVLA, many recall defects will be picked up in routine servicing. Safe Speed estimates the crash potential from the defective DVLA records at well under 10 crashes per year - and it may well be zero.
"While I'm sure that errors at DVLA must take some of the blame, it should have been completely obvious to policy makers that automated and indiscriminate enforcement would have incorrect registration information as a side effect."
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