Of the 35,495 mopeds and light mopeds registered last year in Drenthe, 761 were uninsured. This amounts to approximately 1 in 47 carriages, according to research by insurer Centraal Beheer.
This makes Drenthe the province with the relatively fewest uninsured mopeds and mopeds. In absolute numbers, only Zeeland had fewer (737) in 2021, and each province had more than a thousand or even a multiple of them.
Anyone who owns a moped must take out liability insurance. If you don’t, you can be fined and you are not covered in the event of damage or theft. More than 100,000 mopeds were uninsured in Dutch traffic in 2021. In 2021, the Central Judicial Collection Agency issued more than 35,000 fines for uninsured mopeds. Such a fine amounts to at least 470 euros this year.
The municipality of Hoogeveen has the fewest uninsured carriages in our province. There 1 in 47 mopeds do not meet the obligation, followed by Coevorden (1 in 44), Tynaarlo (1 in 43), Assen (1 in 42) and Emmen (1 in 39). Anyone who has a moped but does not use it on the road can suspend the device.
Drenthe is also the most ‘well-behaved’ boy in the class when it comes to theft. In 2021, 3.5 per 1,000 registered mopeds or light mopeds were stolen here. That is lower than the national average of 9.1 thefts per 1,000 mopeds. Drenthe thus had the lowest average in the Netherlands.
A total of 125 carriages were stolen in the province. This mainly happened in Emmen (50 stolen mopeds), followed by Assen (40), Hoogeveen, Meppel and Tynaarlo (all 10).