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To: jjones9853
I haven't rear-ended anyone actually. I've only been in two wrecks. Once, a lady rear-ended me while I was stopped in a traffic jam (and pushed me into the car ahead of me). Another, I was driving up my driveway 5 mph and hit a patch of ice and hit a stone wall, causing $700 in damage to the car.

However, I can't say that I will never be in a wreck that's my fault, or at least that I'm responsible for (my fault: I'm not paying attention. My responsibility: my brakes give out). However, I think that motorcyclists can cause unnaturally high insurance rates because wrecks with them are inordinately costly. Motorcycles cause everyone to get much more insurance than they would if it were just cars.

Sure, just motorcycles could work, except that some of us have children, and in some places, it rains or drops below freezing.

91 posted on 07/06/2006 2:13:36 PM PDT by Koblenz (Holland: a very tolerant country. Until someone shoots you on a public street in broad daylight...)
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To: Koblenz

Rates are influenced more by the cost of repairs (inflation) than by the cost of injury.


133 posted on 07/06/2006 10:15:27 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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