Insurers start penalising drivers for speed awareness course

Major_Route · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 25, 2006 Posts: 8

Clearly the insurance companies think the course is worthless. It does nothing to educate those on it to help speed awareness. Drivers who take it are worse than those who don't. I think the police should answer that with facts and statistics to stick it to the insurance companies and stop the nonsense.

Lacy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 9

The article strikes me as being somewhat light on facts and may well just be scaremongering. 'It has been discovered that some insurance companies.......'

Discovered by who? How was it discovered? Which insurance companies? There is not one cited example of this being the case.

However, IF certain companies are loading policies having asked the question well, they are free to ask whatever questions they wish in assessing the risk they are being expected to cover and those questions must be answered honestly and completely. You are free, however, to take your business elsewhere should you not like the questions........

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1942

I'm getting fed up with being a wallet on wheels. Too scared even to scratch my nose at the wheel unless some over-zelous do-gooders decree that my car was out of control for a second and they have the evidence of 20 zillion cameras to prove it!

Come the revolution when we stand united, refuse to tax and insure our vehicles and go everywhere at the speed we feel is correct for the road and the conditions. Just like we used to! Demand that we, and our money, are not taken for granted.

There would be too many people for the Authorities and Rip-off companies to deal with, the system would go into melt down.

Flame Away!

EDIT - Naivety is bliss!
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Daggers · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 12:45 pm Post subject:

Lacy · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 9

Ahh! That'll teach me to check out the link!

In which case, Admiral, and any company that asks the question, should be avoided. Thee are plenty of other companies out there; I just hope they don't all take their lead from Admiral.

The irony is that, as mentioned previously, the courses are only offered to minor transgressors so one could argue that, having had a dose of 're-education' they should pose a LOWER risk than someone who has never been caught speeding.....

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