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1960 Chevrolet Corvair dash baby cradle.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...141#post207653
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...550#post189552
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...223#post126474
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...652#post189973
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...598#post128323
Is that Ralph Nader...
And probably a couple of older siblings sitting in the back seat, no seat belts no crash resistant passenger compartment, no head rests, no air bags or electronic warning sensors. How on earth did we ever survive?
Things were a little less crazy then. About 1963 or so, I was fiddling with the door handle in my step-mom's car on the Santa Ana freeway and fell out of the car in rush hour traffic. She stopped the car, got me back in the car, and chewed me out for messing with the door handle, but if that had happened today, I'd have probably gotten hit by 40 or 50 cars before traffic could stop. When I was a teen, around a decade later, LA was crowded, we thought. About 7million people in LA county. Now it's upwards of 12 million. Where I live now, the whole state has a bit less than 4 million people. And native Okies who don't travel much think the traffic's heavy here. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
Been in an argument with my veh.INS. agent over my premiums, No accidents or tickets in over 30 years. and since moving out here where I live now I actually drive fewer than 1,500 miles a year, the veh. I currently am driving a 1991 F250 Diesel I have parked my other 3 and put them in non op status since we only go to town when our water tower gets low it was the best choice to remain on the road. this year my premiums went up by $200.00 per. would be more if I wasn't paying in full each renewal. I asked him why such an increase>Quote:
Originally Posted by WmRMeyers
Because Texas has one of the highest accident rates, in the country just now.
I said let me guess the rates are based on the traffic in the cities, right? You do realize there are more guest rooms in the Dallas Sheridan hotel than there are people in my entire county. I can make 5 trips to town and back and still count all of the cars sharing the road with me during any 1 of those trips with the fingers of 1 hand and still a 1 left over to pick my nose with.
I sometimes really believe Texas should have closed its own boarders. 30 years ago. And now they should limit immigration from other states to those who own a business or they or their parents were born here.
Easy answer: a hell of a lot of us didn't survive.
Deaths per passenger miles has decreased by almost fivefold since 1960 and that Corvair https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-ve...ths-and-rates/
My first car was a 1964 Corvair. I survived...
Common sense would dictate people living in the congested cities with higher occurrences of accidents would bare the high premiums not people living in rural areas. I took the liberty of a sky view of Peacock, Frank, there isn't much there or near it. I am betting the higher rates involve people without drivers licenses and/or insurance multiplying the issue which the rest of us then have to pick up the tab. I can imagine you gave the insurance agent a sound verbal thrashing.
According to NHTSA, the fatality rate on rural roads is twice the rate in urban areas for a number of reasons (although there are slightly fewer total rural fatalities in number). And since fatalities tend to be much more expensive for the insurers, I'm sure that's why a rural driver would be charged more.
In 1965 a college buddy and I drove his 1964 Corvair from Iowa to the east entrance to Yosemite NP. We were in a hurry to get to the park, so drove across Nevada at night. Never seen so many jack rabbits... we hit 112. We saw a large mountain lion just after entering the park... it was, probably, heading for Nevada.Quote:
Originally Posted by IntheGroove
There was 1 count them 1 reportable accident in this county involving 2 or more vehicles in 2022 and 3 single vehicles involved. 1 serious injury some with suspected injuries. 0 deaths. and 1 accident reported 0 vehicles involved Not sure I understand that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by TrickieDickie
https://myaccident.org/texas-acciden...ice-department
In general the occurrences rural fatalities usually involve someone who lives in a city or urban area driving in a rural area unaware of the hazards such as slow-moving farm equipment, wildlife that do not know the drivers are not from the area. or persons driving on unfamiliar roads. Another problem particularly a little further west is we have a lot of dark eyed people who have low night vision so they run with as many as 6 or 8 of those super bright lights on top of their pickups with their high beams at the same time, they drive right down the center of the roads and think everyone else should move out of their way. Those are the ones that DXDOT needs to just aim for their lights and shoot them out if their aim happened to be a little low then a couple foreign nationals, or smart a** es might not make it home. no great loss to society. MY friend has been sitting just west of Kermit TX on a blocked highway for the past 3 hours due to one of those 6 lights running a truck off the road about a mile in front of him. I just had a look at his driving hours and location a few seconds ago. if the accident in front of him in the next half hour he will have run out of hours with only 20 miles to his destination and will have to run on personal conveyance for the remaining 20 miles, it just means we have more stupid paperwork to fill out because they won't do anything about those 6 lights vehicles.Quote:
Originally Posted by schuylergrace
Bob arrived at the drill rig around 4:30 with his load of explosives, IE down hole completion materials for perforating the well casing. 20 miles driving on explanatory paperwork, because he was forced to be stuck on the wrong side of a 5-vehicle crash caused by a 23-year-old Honduran who probably didn't even have a driver's license. No wonder why my ins prems. went up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Frank S
I moved from a large city to a rural area and my insurance premiums dropped in half. I am no longer paying for the idiots that can't drive.
While it is true enough mine is a lot lower than someone in say Houston or Dallas or even smaller city like Abilene but I can't see the justification for a nearly 35% increase.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hill Top Machine Works