Monday, September 21st, 2009 at
9:11 pm
Neil Patrick : What is aggressive driving? Does aggressive driving affect car insurance quote?
Response : Aggressive driving has been defined by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration as “immature” and “selfish” driving behavior may be typical of a small proportion of drivers, but that the vast majority may respond to specific provocation, for example due to frustration with traffic conditions, by driving in an aggressive manner
Aggressive driving is the cause of accidents. For example, as shown subsequently, 30.7 percent of all fatal
crashes from 2003 to 2007 involved a speeding driver, and 11.4 percent involved a driver who reportedly failed to yield the right of way. Either of these behaviors could have been committed purposely—in an aggressive manner—or unintentionally as the result of an error, but when a driver performs both of these behaviors at the same time, it is arguably more likely that the driver did so on purpose rather than accidentally.
It is contend that any unsafe driving behavior, performed deliberately and with ill intention or disregard for safety, can constitute aggressive driving. However, as noted earlier, existing sources of data on motor vehicle crashes do not include information about the motivations or intentions of drivers, therefore, attempts to estimate the prevalence of aggressive driving using motor vehicle crash data must rely on information about the driver’s actions.
It has been found that 68% teenagers, young drivers or students are involved in aggressive driving accidents. The higher the accidents, higher the cost of claims to insurance company and hence the teen auto insurance rates are high.
Please review your teen car insurance quote online to obtain cheap teen auto insurance quote.
Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at
10:05 pm
Rocky: I am a teen. I do have a driving license but I do not have auto insurance. Can I park my car on the road without insurance?
No, Rocky I am afraid this is not correct. In most US States, cars cannot be parked on public roads without complying with car insurance laws. The car will be tower away or you would be given a violation ticket which will result in a fee. Be aware that a simple license plate check from authorities may reveal an uninsured vehicle.
If your vehicle is not in use and uninsured, than you can park is. This is called non operational vehicle, or sometimes in short called ‘non-op’ this is how this vehicle will be registered. If you file your vehicle under this status than the use of the car will be prohibited, but you can park the vehicle officially without problem. When you want to start using the vehicle you must notify and get the status changed to operational and buy auto insurance of comply by all financial responsibility
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009 at
9:32 pm
Sam, Virginia : I just got a traffic violation ticket. One month ago I had a speeding ticket. I got three negative points for the speeding ticket. And this violation is 4 points, meaning I have got negative 7 now. Would this increase my insurance? The main thing is the insurance is under my father’s name. I am trying not to let my father know i got a ticket for the second time after the speeding ticket, and not let the insurance price go up.
Please help me, if my father knows this he is going to kill me.
Traffic violation does affect auto insurance quote.
Response : Traffic violation does affect auto insurance quotes. There are different strategies you can go with to get best student auto insurance, cheap car insurance .
You can take in case you want to dispute/appeal against the charge or you are accepting the charge. If this is a first incident, normally it is best to appeal- most of the time they would ask you to pay but will waive the demerit points. You can also contact a lawyer who specifically helps you to appeal for traffic tickets.
The next thing to do is to tell your father about it especially since he is the policy holder so he will come to know about it sooner or later. He might have a forgiveness clause in his policy. A forgiveness clause is a clause in which the insurance company will forgive any one offence or claim. The clause differs from insurance company to company and so it is best to call the insurance company and ask their advice.
Yes- the demerit points will definitely increase your insurance premium and this would be a high risk. Please shop online for insurance quotes for free -you will get cheap car insurance of the best auto insurance rates.
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