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To: staytrue
Well grab hold of this statistic if you will. Eighty three percent of accidents in the USofA involve people with no insurance, out of 6,316,000 accidents in 2002 5,232,280 involved people with no insurance, now how many of those accidents would you suppose involve illegals?
114 posted on 01/12/2004 7:57:34 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: MissAmericanPie
Eighty three percent of accidents in the USofA involve people with no insurance

I believe your statistics may be wrong. I tried a google search and the results were inconclusive, but I think one article said 14% of accidents were by those with no insurance and of those 14%, 80% were by illegal aliens (which comes to about 10% of the total) The 80% figure came from cheathouse.com and is anti immigrant and of a dubious source.

However, the numbers of 14% by uninsured and 10% by illegals (or 80% of uninsured) fit my intuition.

I will add that since illegals have trouble getting valid driver's licenses, they will also have trouble getting insurance since they can't get a license, so the 80% sounds right to me. Plus 1 of 7 being uninsured sounds right to me also.

119 posted on 01/12/2004 8:21:03 PM PST by staytrue
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