My Ramblings About Car Safety And Insurance Prices

If only all cars were made so that you could survive a crash like the one Ryan Newman lived through at the NASCAR race on Sunday. His car skidded on it's hood for the longest time and then rolled sideways and landed hard, back on it's hood. Street cars aren't designed for that kind of impact.



Kentucky has a series of signs throughout the state that according to their website, "provide timely information to motorists of any upcoming incidents and estimated delay times." On our way home from our Florida trip the signs read "616 people have died on Kentucky highways this year." I told my husband I didn't want to be number 617. Fortunately I wasn't, but two days later it read 619 which meant in two days three people died in car wrecks.

Then yesterday hubby decides he could be using less gas by driving our old car - the one we had given to our son before he bought a car with less miles on it a couple months ago. However, it's not insured any more. So we call Progressive, (Who I love by-the-way. They were amazing when my Jeep burned last year. It burned on a Friday evening and on Monday afternoon they were at my house with a check!) and ask for insurance quotes on adding yet another car. This will be number four. Four cars, three people, one of which is a male under 25.

It's less than $50 a month, so we add it for now. We'll monitor it and see if we would save that much on gas in a month by using the car verses the truck. If not we'll drop it again. It's nice to know that we have a backup car if one of ours decides not to start one morning, but what's odd is that it costs more per year to insure it than the one my son is driving daily - and that car is a year older. I'm told it's because the one he's driving has a better safety rating. That makes me feel better for him,  (since I can't put him in a car with roll bars) but now I have to worry about hubby. Hopefully he can keep it from rolling end-over-end!