Last car insurance tesco News February 2006
ItТs official! More car insurance tesco claims in bad weather
Recent studies by Norwich Union have made an absolute connection between the weather and the number and severity of accidents on British roads. It rains on average just over 6% of the time over the whole UK according to their research with cloudy conditions adding a further 66%.
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The number of accidents escalated by up to 40 per cent on days with the heaviest rain. They suggest that this clearly indicates that motorists are not taking proper account of changing road conditions even when the alteration is the mildest of merely being wet. Drivers only slow down by 3 to 4 per cent when road conditions are wet, although the amount of reduction in adhesion calls for greater caution than this. A Spokesman for Norwich Union said that people should allow a 2 second road gap in dry conditions, but this should be increased in wet or freezing conditions. The situation is exacerbated by there being more cars on the road when it rains, some 10% extra preferring not to walk.
Added to this is the double whammy of the increased cost of car insurance tesco claims. Damage caused in accidents in rainy conditions is on average 27 per cent more expensive to fix due to greater impact speeds, where drivers canТt slow down on the slippery roads.
This position worsens over the average 11 days a year of freezing weather where ice and snow on the road increase the number of accidents by up to 50 percent. Quite apart from the vastly reduced grip, in some of these accidents the drivers own up to not having clear visibility. The simple precaution of properly de-icing the windows all round the car and not driving through a letter box sized clear hole, would have saved the necessity of a claim on their car insurance tesco.
Recent studies by Norwich Union have made an absolute connection between the weather and the number and severity of accidents on British roads. It rains on average just over 6% of the time over the whole UK according to their research with cloudy conditions adding a further 66%.
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The number of accidents escalated by up to 40 per cent on days with the heaviest rain. They suggest that this clearly indicates that motorists are not taking proper account of changing road conditions even when the alteration is the mildest of merely being wet. Drivers only slow down by 3 to 4 per cent when road conditions are wet, although the amount of reduction in adhesion calls for greater caution than this. A Spokesman for Norwich Union said that people should allow a 2 second road gap in dry conditions, but this should be increased in wet or freezing conditions. The situation is exacerbated by there being more cars on the road when it rains, some 10% extra preferring not to walk.
Added to this is the double whammy of the increased cost of car insurance tesco claims. Damage caused in accidents in rainy conditions is on average 27 per cent more expensive to fix due to greater impact speeds, where drivers canТt slow down on the slippery roads.
This position worsens over the average 11 days a year of freezing weather where ice and snow on the road increase the number of accidents by up to 50 percent. Quite apart from the vastly reduced grip, in some of these accidents the drivers own up to not having clear visibility. The simple precaution of properly de-icing the windows all round the car and not driving through a letter box sized clear hole, would have saved the necessity of a claim on their car insurance tesco.
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