The 13% of the vehicle fleet in the Balearic Islands does not have compulsory insurance, a percentage that is above the 9% state average, according to the data that the Government has provided in a parliamentary response to the PP deputies Óscar Gamazo and Jaime Mateo Istúriz. They are data that correspond to January 31 of this year and that specifically number 2,957,530 vehicles that do not have the insurance policy required by law, which can be sanctioned with between 601 and 3,005 euros. This figure means that the national average of vehicles without insurance is 9 out of 100, but this proportion rises to 23 in the case of Melilla and to 18 in that of the other autonomous city: Ceuta. Of the total of the rest of the provinces, the higher percentage of vehicles without compulsory insurance corresponds to Almeria and the Balearic Islands, with 13 percent in each case; ahead of Girona, Granada and Santa Cruz de Tenerife (12 percent).
11 percent of the vehicles do not have it in Cádiz, Ciudad Real, Huelva, Lleida, Málaga, Murcia, Las Palmas and Tarragona. On the other hand, at the opposite extreme, Gipuzkoa, Madrid and Navarra are the provinces with the lowest proportion of vehicles without insurance, 6 percent. According to the law, failure to comply with the obligation to insure will determine the prohibition of circulation within the national territory of uninsured vehicles and the deposit or public or domiciliary seal of the vehicle, charged to its owner, while the insurance is not arranged. «The deposit or public or domiciliary seal of the vehicle for a period of one month, which in case of recurrence will be three months and in the event of breach of the deposit or seal will be one year, and it must be demonstrated, to lift said deposit or seal, that the corresponding insurance is available”, notice the regulations.
And not only that, because the expenses that arise as a result of the deposit or seal of the vehicle will be borne by the owner, “who must pay them or guarantee their payment as a prerequisite for the return of the vehicle.” While, the financial penalty It ranges between 601 euros and 3,005 euros of fine, “graduated according to whether the vehicle circulated or not, its category, the service it provides, the seriousness of the damage caused, if any, the duration of the lack of insurance and the reiteration of the same offence.”
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