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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!sys.uea.ac.uk!mjs
- From: mjs@sys.uea.ac.uk (Mike Sixsmith)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Rising Insurance Charges versus decreasing Accident Rate (U.K)
- Keywords: insurance, accidents
- Message-ID: <mjs.727995833@zen.sys.uea.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:03:53 GMT
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- Organization: UEA School of Information Systems, Norwich, UK.
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- Last weeks U.K. Motorcycle News carried a story about how the
- number of motorcycle deaths in this country had virtually halved
- over the last five years, making motorcyclists the only group
- of road-users to have met the governments targets for reducing
- deaths on the road - only the targets were intended to be achieved
- in something like five years time.
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- What I want to know is this - why, when the number of deaths is dropping,
- and also presumably the accident rate, is the cost of motorcycle insurance
- going through the roof?? Are insurance companies making fortunes out
- of us?? Were we getting our insurance on the cheap before?? Is it the cost
- of all the plastic fairings on our racer-reps that we are paying for??
- Is it the increasing numbers of machines being stolen??
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- Anyone out there got any answers??
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