Almost hate to get into it - and I do not drive while eating or talking on the phone and rarely adjust the radio [NPR/PRI/etc all the time] except to change disks on audio books, and my youngest is 25 - but cell phone use is rated down the list of causes of accidents. Don't lay as much blame there as on disciplining kids and eating, though certainly as preventable as the others. BillR Jacksonville, FL - home of mostly nice and polite drivers 1981 300SD 299,67+ miles
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Frederick Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:18 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] RE OT: The World Has Plenty of Oil Liability and medical are the same, reguardless of car, comprehensive coverage is higher for more valuable vehicles, and for the "normal" driver (few or no caused accidents, good record) the rate will be set by the pool cost, not the vehicle. Sadly, the worst drivers are subsidized by the better ones. Interestingly, there was a short article in the paper today about the cost of auto accidents, many preventable. Works out to $1050 per person per year, which means some of us ain't paying our fair share. I've maintained this for a long time, but I've been told seat belt laws, speeding laws, and rightaway law is impossible to enforce, let alone cell phone usage law. Funny, that $2500 fine and permanent loss of driver's license seems to work pretty well in the rest of the world..... Peter On Mar 4, 2008, at 8:55 PM, OK Don wrote: > I'd like to see numbers on injuries/fatalities per accident by > vehicle. I've never found them, but I'm sure the insurance companies > have the data to generate them. IF a Benz is as superior in a crash as > we like to think, then we should be getting great insurance discounts > (which I'm not getting). > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Peter Frederick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Remember, big SUV's have the WORST injury/fatality record for >> occupants of any vehicle on the road. They are, and always have >> been, the least safe one to drive. >> >> Safest car for injuries/fatalities per accident, is, of all >> things, a >> VW Jetta. Seems you can get away from things better in it (it >> doesn't roll over when you yank the wheel, for instance). >> >> Peter > > > -- > OK Don, KD5NRO > Norman, OK > "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics." > -Benjamin Disraeli and/or Mark Twain > '90 300D, '87 300SDL, '81 240D, '78 450SLC, '97 Ply Grand Voyager > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
