Speeding tickets, speeding cars and auto insurance?

Eric Schmidt: Would the insurance company cancel my sons auto insurance policy for speeding or speeding tickets? What should I do?

Speeding and speeding tickets lead to high teen car insurance rates or even cancellation of auto insurance

Response : Speeding is dangerous and this is a known fact. This is one of the main reason why the teen auto insurance rates are very high for this age group. The teenage group like to speed. As per the surrvey conducted by Allstate last year, teenage girls are now indulging in speeding and distracted driving compared to boys. Speeding is a leading casue of fatality for this age group. Please stay tunned on this blog if you are interested in statastics since this is what I intend to give you in the forth comming post.

If you have too many tickets, or claims the insurance company may refuse to renew your policy, or they can put you into Facility Rating. “Facility Rating” means high risk insurance rates of thousands of dollars per year, for at least three years, or until you have a clean record. Your sons car insurance policy will not be cancelled immediately, but the renewal would be refused. This is when you would have problems.

It is worth fighting a speeding ticket, just to save the car insurance premium cost, or to get your teen car insurance renewal.

Any insurance agent or insurance advisor, would recommond that you contest the speeding ticket in court of law, since this is going to save you thousands of dollars in insurance. Especially teen car insurance, since the cost of teen car insurance is high and the added cost of being a high risk on account of speeding is going to cost you even higher teen car insurance premiums.

Please ignore the cost written on the speeding ticket and weigh it against the cost of fighting for the speeding ticket? It is worth it when you consider the insurance implications could cost you hundreds and hundreds of dollars more.

Insurance rates do not go up or down by twenty or thirty dollars per year, they increase by hundreds or thousands of dollars. Not just for one year but for up to six years.

At most times the police officer give the driver a “break” by dropping the speeding ticket down to just a fine of fifty dollars or less, with no demerit points. This would not mean that if you get a break from the officer your teen car insurance or auto insurance rates will not be affected.

The truth is that insurance companies do not count or care about demerit points. Your insurance company counts “convictions”. If you pay a speeding ticket, even one with a small fine on it, your insurance company will put a strike against your insurance rate. Each ticket except for a parking ticket is goind to increase your car insurance rate. The best strategy is not to indulge in speeding or to fight every speeding ticket to keep your driving record clean. Ofcouse qualified people will do much better in the court than you can do and so this might be a good idea.

What other due diligencies can be done to stop speeding and for teenage safety or best car insurance rates

Teenage safety is a great and big concern, more than even teen car insurance or getting best car insurance rates. These are the folllwing measures you can take for your teenage driver :
1) It might be a good idea not to let the teenager drive a sports cars. Sprorts car speed smoothly and at this age it is difficult for a teenage to stop from trying a spin. It would be best to give him a normal car.
2) Guide the teen, be a role model and explain them the issues of speeding.
3) Insist that they pay their own teen car insurance, this way they would be more responsible and accountable and would stop speeding.
4) Enroll them for graduated driving lessons.
5) Compare teen car insurance quotes, you would get the best car insurance quotes.

Summary : Speeding tickets or speeding cars are to be avoided for any drivers especially aggressive drivers. Speeding tickets do not fly with insurance companies and are certainly going to increase car insurance rates. It is worth fighting a speeding ticket.

Jeff Walker :I am looking for cheap car insurance for teen auto insurance. My friend told me that I should go for a higher deductible? Please let me know how this would help in getting a cheap teen auto insurance quote and what the deductible is?

Teen auto insurance : Higher deductible

Response : Teen auto insurance is normally very expensive and so intially till you can establish a good driving record, one sure way to reduce the teen auto insurance quote is going for higher dedcutible. A deductible does not mean that the teen auto insurance premium is reduced by this amount of deductible that you opt for. It only means that if you opt for a deductible of $500 than the teen auto insurance premium is reduced by 5%. In case you go for a higher deductible of $1000/- than the discount on the premium is by 10%.

Let me explain to you what a deductible is. A deductible is the amount which you will bear and pay out of your pocket before the insurance company starts paying you in case of a claim. Thus if you meet with an accident and have to pay $5000/- for your car repairs than you would be paying $1000/- out of your pocket and the insurance company will pay the rest $4000/-

This is why your teen auto insurance remium is reduced or you get cheap teen auto insurance and the insurance company gives you a discount. The insurance company saves money on a claim and so it offers a discount. Secondly, you have to keep in mind that the incentive for a cheap teen auto insurance premium in terms of discount is given since you would not be placing smaller claims of les than $1000/- with the insurance company. Thus the insurance company will save money for smaller claims since its adminsitrative expense will be nil in case of small claims.

Also it has been observed that once you have to pay a deductible than the drivers are very careful since they are going to bear a cost of the claim. Thus this is a positive ploy employed by the insurance company to encourage good driving and discourage bad driving habits. This is very important for teen drivers. It would be one best way to save money and have cheap teen auto insurance and to improve your own driving.

Drive carefully and enjoy your savings.

Thanks.
Kamlesh

Howie: Thanks for your information on speeding tickets. I am glad that I can still get cheap car insurance, if my offence is not continous.

Speeding tickets and cheap car insurance

Response : Howie, we were discussing the cost of the speeding ticket. Today, let me discuss something which has recently come to light and that is the fact that your speeding ticket can cost you your job also. In case you are driving for your employer and your job involves driving than you will have to be careful how carefully you drive. Your driving history is not only important for the insurance company and for you to get cheap car insurance rates, it is also important for you to maintain your job.

Insurance companies are not only deciding on your insurance but are also deciding indirectly if you can be employed. When the employer goes to insurer you, the insurance company may deny your insurance or charge a high premium if your driving record is bad and thus your employer may decide not to give you your job. This is something the young drivers have to keep in mind.

Insurance companies are considering your driving record in great details and this is becoming a deciding factor of rating. The more driving activity a person has the more likelihood of an accident or getting involved in an offence like speeding. Secondly, your driving history is important whether you are driving your own car, your company’s car or your friend’s car.

The employers are also becoming more careful if you are driving the company’s car and have a bad driving record, since the liability which the company can get might be higher than the coverage that they have taken on the policy.

Young drivers, teens or college student should always remember that cheap auto insurance is not the only thing for what you need to keep a good driving record but it is going to affect your job also. If you want to have a cheap car insurance premium and if you want to make sure that you have a job in the future it would be important for you to have a good driving record. Good driving history would give you cheap car insurance – guaranteed.