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So, in the spirit of science, we dug out five videos showing just how bad snow pile-ups can get.

#4) Great Falls and the Long Pile-Up

#3) 15 Car Pile-up…After Pile-Up…After Pile-Up…

This video focuses on one crash in particular, as it has the most cars involved, but as they mention early on, this particular stretch of I-90 saw more than twenty crashes in a single day thanks to the white stuff falling down from the sky…and most of them were pile-ups, several in the double digits of vehicles. It’s good to remember that just because there’s one accident doesn’t mean the rest of us are off the hook.

#2) It Takes One Idiot To Ruin Everything

#1) And Sometimes It’s Multiple Idiots

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Tags: Five, Five Worst

Parents may be particularly concerned about their teens that are going to begin driving in the winter, MetLife noted recently. The combination of inexperience behind the wheel and poor driving conditions resulting from rain, snow and ice can instill fear when teens begin pushing to learn how to drive or ask to borrow a car.

With the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reporting that vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for those between 15 and 20 years old, responsible for about one-third of fatalities in that age group, the worry is understandable.

Evaluating a Drivers Readiness

Car Insurance provider Allstate notes some parents may have difficulty teaching and find having another trusted adult instruct their teen is a better choice. When interacting, parents should ensure they give new drivers the opportunity to evaluate and correct their own mistakes and praise them for good performance as well as pointing out flaws in their childs driving.

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Tags: Teens, Teens Wanting

I came across some interesting news last week regarding car insurance dodgers. The news was that the Director of AA Insurance was expressing his personal concerns at the lenient nature taking by the authorities who hand out fines for driving without car insurance cover.

Simon Douglas was quoted saying: “Were failing honest motorists by such lenient fines. In my view, its vital to get the message over to this motoring underclass and, importantly, to their friends and families, that driving without insurance is socially unacceptable.”

Fines

The average fine for someone caught without insurance is just £200; however judges do have the power to fine them up to £5,000. It seems they simply choose not to. Mr Do

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As one of the many outgrowths of the sweeping federal health care law, health insurers and employers must now pay the cost of screening children for obesity and providing them with appropriate counseling.

With about one in three children in the United States obese or overweight, according to government statistics, the need for such programs is clear. But, experts say, creating them will be challenging. Other than intensive hospital-based programs, few proven models exist for helping children and adolescents achieve and maintain a healthier weight, and researchers do not even fully understand the factors that contributed to the rapid rise in childhood obesity in recent years. “If this were easy, if there were clear outcomes for success, we would be investing in these,” said Dr. Samuel R. Nus Read more…