As well as costing drivers £17m a year in claims, wild animals also account for around 500 injuries according to latest figures. As spring arrives, wild animals are out in force so now is the time when motorists must be especially careful on the roads. It is estimated that around 11 million animals- including 10m birds and 500,000 rabbits will be hit over the course of the year and this will have an effect on your car insurance.
As the government in the UK has made it mandatory for car owners to have an insurance for their car, there is a sudden rush of insurance companies wooing car owners. Presently, there are more than 100 insurance companies in the UK offering insurance policies for cars. Despite the growing number of insurance companies, there has been little or no change in the price of their car insurance policies. The high price of car insurance discourages many car owners from buying a car insurance. They either prefer not to buy an insurance or they look for a cheap car insurance.
If you have bad credit the chances are that you’re probably paying a whole lot more for your car insurance than people with better credit ratings. Auto insurance companies are using the credit information of individuals in order to determine the susceptibility of people to becoming risks in terms of their ability to pay debts. This means that you have a lot more people paying substantially more for car insurance than they ordinarily should.