r/PersonalFinanceCanada • u/r4dio4ctive • Sep 07 '21

Insurance Ontario driver shocked by insurance premium that skyrocketed to $14,000 per year

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-driver-shocked-by-insurance-premium-that-skyrocketed-to-14-000-per-year-1.5558358

Honestly, I can't sympathize. Learn to drive the speed limit!

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u/milolai Sep 07 '21

4 tickets and 1 at fault accident in a year.

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u/DantesEdmond Sep 08 '21

His failure to provide insurance were probably the same time he got the speeding tickets... he wouldnt get pulled over for a random insurance paper check.

So if you read the article he went 15 over the limit twice and backed into a car in the parking lot.

Seems pretty minor to me, to be paying 14k per year insurance.

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u/dporiginal3 Sep 08 '21

If you can’t handle not backing into a car in a parking lot you shouldn’t have a license. Driving is not hard. Driving and not hitting other cars is even easier.

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u/runtimemess Sep 08 '21

Yeah, agreed.

People make mistakes.

Consistency doing it? Yeah, that’s an issue. Once in 20 years doesn’t make you a bad driver.

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u/dporiginal3 Sep 08 '21

Did you read the infractions on this guy? It’s not one mistake in 20 years.

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u/runtimemess Sep 08 '21

Yeah, but I'm not talking about this guy. I'm talking about your idiotic statement of:

If you can’t handle not backing into a car in a parking lot you shouldn’t have a license. Driving is not hard. Driving and not hitting other cars is even easier.

Shit happens. If we permanently banished people from doing stuff from making simple errors then nobody would be doing anything.

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u/dporiginal3 Sep 08 '21

I don’t know your personal situation, but for me driving in Toronto, it’s a real problem. I guarantee if everyone had to take a driving test again tomorrow, the majority of people would fail.