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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

After declaring that it would be looking into rising car premiums this September, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has now launched a full scale investigation into car insurance costs as a response to an overwhelming public outcry in the nation.

The areas of concern include insurers selling their policy holders’ details to solicitors and stoking up claims against themselves. Other areas include the cost of replacement cars and accident repairs.

An executive in the OFT, Sonya Branch, was quoted as saying: “Our concerns relate to the provision of third party vehicle repairs and credit hire replacement vehicles to claimants, where we suspect companies may be competing to extract money from each other rather than keeping premiums as low as possible and providing car owners with value for money.”

She continued, “By carrying out a market study, we aim to clarify whether a market investigation reference to the Competition Commission is appropriate.”

However, the new findings revealed by OFT suggest that car insurance premiums have not been rising as rapidly as has been previously claimed.

OFT’s investigation have shed some light over some of the practices leading up to rising car insurance rates.

Car hire firms offer replacement cars to non-faulty drivers for the time being while their cars are being repaired. At the same

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Tags: Premiums

There is a fairly unique system in place regarding auto insurance rates in North Carolina.  The Daily Reflector published an article by Gary D.

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Tags: Auto Insurance, Auto Insurance Rates, Insurance Rates, Rates

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PENNDOT) is adopting a new security features on drivers licenses it issues. The measure is a high-resolution hologram designed to suppress color so that it appears to be black or white, depending on how it is held.

A drivers license or identification card has always been a trusted source for establishing a persons true identity, said PennDOT Secretary Barry Schoch. We are steadfast in our resolve to combat counterfeit forms of identification, which ultimately jeopardize lives and hold great potential for harm to our national security.

The contrast to other holograms, which are generally colorful and less consistently visible in environments with varied lighting, is meant to ease the detection of false licenses and forgeries.

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Tags: Feature, Security Feature