UK Insurance News

Research from LV= Car Insurance has found that many motorists admit to acting erratically when they see a speed camera at the side of the road, thousands of drivers have admitted to either slamming on their brakes or taking their eyes of the road to closely inspect the speedo as soon as a camera comes [...]

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It always strikes me as a bit odd that insurance companies say on the one hand that they do not make any money out of motor insurance in the UK, and yet on the other hand every other television advert is selling motor insurance.
Is it because they are spending all their profits on advertising while [...]

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August is National Road Victims Month and this year attention is being drawn towards trying to save young lives.
Every year 1.2million people die on the UK roads in traffic accidents and one third of these are young people under the age of 25.
An AA spokesman said: “Government figures show eight out of 10 accidental deaths, [...]

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Along with the launch of their ‘We Deliver Service’ car hire launch, Europcar have revealed recent research that suggests that parked cars clogging up residential streets in UK cities could be costing motorists a combined £65 billion each year.
The research says that car ownership for the time-poor city dwellers costs them £3.50 for every [...]

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I was surprised to read that there are over 150,000 cases every year of motorists filling their vehicles with the wrong fuel, in 95% of cases  putting petrol into a diesel engined vehicle.
How the other 5% manage to put diesel in a petrol car is a mystery as the unleaded tank neck is narrower than [...]

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