Swinton Car Insurance warns that ignorant UK public make unnecessary claims
Swinton Car Insurance have noted in a recent survey commissioned for their car insurance clients that a number of British drivers are making claims on their policies when there is nothing to claim for.
According to Swinton the UK driving public are knowledge deficient in the following areas, which effectively puts us all at risk and pushes up the cost of cheap car insurance:
1. understanding elementary parts of a motor car – 36% !
2. unable to change a tyre – 29% !
3. unaware that they regularly have to check their tyre pressures and are unable to do it – a staggering 20 % or one fith of the UK driving population!
4. Given the above it willl be no surprise to learn that 9% admitted to not knowing how to open the bonnet of their car.
Who’d be an AA serviceman!
Obviously the technical part of the current driving test does not appear to be working. Whether this is evidence that lack of technical knowledge of the operating systems of a modern car leads to an increase in car insurance claims – remains to be seen!
Steve Chelton of Swinton Car Insurance said-
“All drivers should have at least basic knowledge of their cars and should not rely on other people to carry out maintenance work such as checking tyres and topping up oil.
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“If drivers had a better understanding of their cars they probably wouldn’t make so many unnecessary claims which can lead to an increase in car insurance premiums.”
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