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In December 2010 I purchased RAC cover for my daughter’s Mini – but at no point was I informed there would be automatic renewal. A few weeks into the policy we contacted RAC to cancel it as the insured car had been towed to a garage and was being repaired and then sold, and we therefore no longer needed cover. I was told I could not cancel the policy as I had used the service, which I accepted as fair enough.

A year on and have I have just discovered from my credit card bill that the policy has been automatically renewed, and I have been charged £82 again. It has emerged that a renewal was sent to daughter’s previous address – and did not appear on my credit card statement until the following month. The RAC has refused a refund because we are outside the 14-day cooling-off period. I am adamant I did not agree in writing or verbally to automatic renewal.

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Tags: Rac, Rac Error

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

We at SafeAuto would like to take a moment to beseech you, the American driver, to use the most valuable tool you can to save your car and your money, the one that sits between your ears.

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Tags: Five, Five Worst

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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You’ve been injured in a car accident, and for the moment you cannot return to work.  Panic sets in.  How do you pay the bills?  The mortgage?

Being injured in a car accident is bad enough. But being disabled from earning a living because of injuries suffered in a crash may be  the thing that pushes a victim and her family into financial ruin.  Michigan No-Fault wage loss was created nearly 40 years ago to stop that from happening.

No-Fault wage loss benefits  pay injured car accident victims 85 percent of the wages they would have earned had they not been injured. That is

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