Car Insurance - A Cautionary Curfew
Saturday, November 11th, 2006Insurance is very, very expensive for a certain group of drivers. Unfortunately, statistics prove that newly qualified young men are a particularly poor insurance risk. A risk that rises significantly between the hours of 11pm and 6am.
Naturally all parents want to help their children to gain a degree of independence and the vast majority of 17 year olds are keen to learn to drive. Several years of running their offspring around and keeping their social diaries, as well as your own, may now be coming to an end and many parents take the decision to help with the insurance costs. The parents of girls come out a little better off, financially, but for those with sons - read on.
It seems that young males are an amazing 62 times more likely have convictions for dangerous driving than young women. Out of over 7000 convictions for dangerous driving or causing death or bodily harm, 33% were attributable to young men aged between 17 and 20.
The worst time for these offences and for accidents i (more...)
