Katie Price has revealed the enormous amount she must pay up front for car insurance after six driving bans left insurers unwilling to take a risk on the former glamour model.
Price was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW on the B2135 in West Sussex on September 28, 2021, and was also handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence for drink-driving while disqualified and without insurance.
During that court appearance, the prosecutor said Price, 46, had five previous driving bans.
She was also handed an £880 fine last March for driving a Range Rover on the A14 bypass in Kettering, Northamptonshire, without insurance or a valid driver’s license.
Price has since revealed her checkered driving history has left insurance companies reluctant to take a chance on her – but admits she still qualifies for car rental.
‘No insurance company will insure me, they want £150,000 down, and £8,000 a month,’ she told Rob Moore’s Disruptors podcast.
Katie Price admits she’s back on the road thanks to a car rental company, after six driving bans left her uninsurable
Price was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW on the B2135 in West Sussex on September 28, 2021 (pictured)
The average cost of car insurance in the United Kingdom is around £861 per year, or £71.75 per month, but the amount is dependent on a variety of factors, including driving history.
Despite the setback, Prince was soon back on the road after visiting a car rental service, who provided her with a luxury Jeep.
She said: ‘I went to Enterprise and said I want the biggest Jeep, the nicest car that you’ve got. They’re like, yeah we’ve got one, we’ve got a Nissan Jeep. I said, can I get it in black, and is it automatic? They went, yeah yeah, we’ll have a look, have you got your driving license?’
After reluctantly handing it over, Price admitted even she was astonished when they offered her the car.
‘I went, what, I can have the Nissan? They went, yeah! They’re looking at me like they’ve never seen anyone so happy in their life,’ she recalled.
Price was given 28 days to pay £1,852, imposed in relation to the offences committed on the A14 at Kettering on August 2 last year.
Finding her guilty and imposing the fine, chair of the bench Neil Sheppard said: ‘From the evidence we have been shown, the case is proven against Miss Price.’
Magistrates were told Price has numerous previous convictions for motoring offences, including driving while disqualified in 2019 and 2021.
The former glamour model was also handed an £880 fine last March for driving a Range Rover on the A14 bypass in Kettering, Northamptonshire, without insurance or a valid driver’s license
‘No insurance company will insure me, they want £150,000 down, and £8,000 a month,’ she told Rob Moore’s Disruptors podcast
She was banned from driving for two years after she crashed her BMW in September 28 2021, and was also handed a 16-week suspended jail sentence for drink-driving.
During that court appearance, the prosecutor said Price had five previous driving bans.
Following the latest offence, she was handed eight penalty points on her licence, which was said in court to be ‘expired’ after a ‘medical stop’ was placed on it in April last year.
The court was told Price was caught on CCTV at an M&S petrol station forecourt on the morning of August 2, where police officers standing near the entrance saw her vehicle pull up at one of the pumps.
Opening the facts of the case against Price, prosecutor Cheryl Burridge said: ‘Officers were on a mobile patrol and they stopped at the service station.
‘They saw a vehicle pulling into the service station by the fuel pump. She (Price) has exited the vehicle with an unknown male and a child.’
As Price and the male walked from the vehicle into the services past the officers, the court heard, she was recognised and they ‘believed her to be disqualified from driving’.
‘Although Price was not subject to a driving ban, the court heard she did not have a valid license due to the ‘stop’ put on it, after an application for renewal was withdrawn.
It also emerged that Price left the services in the Range Rover, with the unknown male at the wheel, and was not stopped because police had not witnessed her driving the vehicle.
After Price had left the services, the court heard, officers reviewed footage showing her getting out of the driver’s seat and instigated criminal proceedings.
In a statement read to the court by the prosecutor, Pc Harrison Beverley said: ‘During this statement I will refer to a female who is known as Katie Price.
‘I was outside the front of the shops, speaking with response police. I did not see her (Price) driving.
‘I recognised her as a media personality.’
The officer added that he had reviewed CCTV footage at the petrol station and had seen a female ‘believed to be Price’ step out of the driver’s side of the Range Rover.
A marker was then placed on the vehicle after computer checks disclosed that Price had an expired licence and was not covered with valid insurance.
Magistrates were told the previous suspended sentence imposed on Price had no effect in the current proceedings, and that she was given three penalty points in November 2023 for speeding.
The reality TV star has already committed 11 driving offences in the previous fifteen years.
