Speaking as a Brit driving 38 years Insurance is compulsory over there and I think the insurance premiums are based on statistics. Therefore a 17 yr old with a Porsche plus performance modifications and a 2 drink driving convictions would find her premium increase by several hundred percent.
In another life many years ago, I was a construction manager. A young labourer shot off one lunch time for some chips. He was a typical boy racer. He didn't come back that afternoon. In a hurry to make it to the chip shop, he decided to overtake a funeral procession of 3 cars. Unfortunately a bus came the other way and in an attempt to squeeze in between said bus and procession, ended up damaging all 3 cars in procession, damaging the bus and writing off his own car. He spent some time in hospital, we had to replace him on site so he ended up with no car, no job, and an insurance quote for his next car of about �1500. Maybe he should buy a computer.............. running Linux of course! Woodsey On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:27 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > >>Speaking as one who has held a GB > >>driving license since 1976 > > That's *without* convictions! > > Reminded of a Jasper Carrott story ... whilst driving in America, was > pulled over by the Police. Presented his UK driving license (old style, > i.e. a large fold-out paper sheet with lots of space for details of > "problems") ... > > "Wow Sir, you must be a pretty good driver. It says here that you've > been endorsed *three* times" > > Luckily the technical jargon of "endorsed" didn't mean the same thing on > opposite sides of the Pond. > > -jim
