Driving without insurance in the UK, with an International license – what will happen?
Your story is full of holes, as a previous writer has said because; 1) If the Police stop an uninsured motorist they will impound the car. If they cannot do that because of an exceptional operational reason then they will never let you drive away in the car. If they did, they would be allowing you to commit offences, which they simply cannot do. 2) An International driving licence has no legal standing. You acquire a licence to drive in your country of residence and that allows you to drive in that Country. If the licence is EU licence, you can then drive in any other EU Country. Alternatively, any none EU VISITOR to the UK can drive in accordance with a licence acquired in the visitor’s country of residence. NB Visitor status ends as soon as you become a permanent UK resident. You appear to be a UK resident so you need a UK licence. Again, the Police would not allow an unlicensed driver to simply drive away. I do not know if you are genuinely mixed up about what happened or if you are
I am sure you will be banned, and there is no point NOT informing your insurers of this, they will be informed by the DVLA of the offence when you renew next time, they will get very miffed with you if you don’t tell them about it, and may cancel insurance with you – this leaves you with far fewer companies who will deal with you, and at a much higher price, as you are a bad risk. It is also a criminal offence to not disclose the offence to them. It will take five years of angelic behaviour to put this behind you.
