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This is where you'll find all of the latest news from Provident Insurance, maintenance tips, updates on our charity work, insight into how insurance works and what we get up to behind the scenes!

  1. World's Weirdest Driving Laws

    Driving in the UK isn’t the easiest thing in the world – we have a fairly strict and rigorous testing system which is designed to ensure no-one is set loose on our roads before they’re 100% ready and can obey the laws of the road. In October 2015, the UK driving laws were updated to make it illegal to smoke in any vehicle carrying anyone under the age of 18. Here at Provident Insurance, we’ve heard about driving laws that were more surprising than the new smoking ban – so we thought we’d share some of the strangest and most complex driving laws from the UK and around the world! 

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  2. Motoring Myths

    Here at Provident Insurance, we thought we’d share some of the biggest motoring myths and misconceptions that we’ve come across over the last 50 years – and finally decide whether they’re true, false or somewhere between the two! Read on to find out whether you’ve been caught out by any of these motoring myths…  

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