Seniors have chance to lower car insurance


Monday, July 07, 2008 | 6 comment(s)

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With costs rising, one way seniors can save money is to reduce auto insurance costs by taking the AARP Safe Driving Class.

 Organizers have scheduled a class Thursday and Friday, July 17-18, in Reedsport.

It will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Covenant United Methodist Church, 3520 Frontage Road, Reedsport.

There is a $10 fee for class materials. For information or to register, call 888-7415.

AARP began offering Safe Driving classes in 1979, when it was discovered that people older than 55 were experiencing more crashes per mile than drivers age 25 to 54.  The cause was found to be certain age-related problems, such as loss of hearing, sight and medical problems. The Safe Driving class focuses on these and other age related problems and helps seniors become aware of them.

All insurance companies doing business in Oregon must offer a discount to people older than 55 who complete the class. The discount is given in addition to all other discounts received by a policy holder. People younger than 55 also can take the class but will not receive a discount from their insurance companies.
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You think wrote on Jul 8, 2008 7:35 AM:

The nation's 75 million baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are having more crashes because there are more people alive in that age group than all other ages!!!!

oldster wrote on Jul 8, 2008 2:50 AM:

Yup Sweetie,

Us old folks running along at the speed limit are quite a problem on the highways. Please try to keep more than a foot back from my trailer hitch whenever you can. I realize you have very important things to accomplish and my going so slow is the problem not your lack of planning.

Oh yeah, try driving without your cell phone stuck in your ear. Cross traffic does come from the side you have blocked with your cell phone and it might just be me, the slow oldster?

richard wrote on Jul 7, 2008 10:38 PM:

We are probably no greater of a hazzard than the loose jaw condition you have...

RICK wrote on Jul 7, 2008 7:43 PM:

Want to lower there car insurance?Keep there butts of the road.They are slow and dangerous.Half of them should be in a rest home, instead of behind the wheel.
rick

sheila is rude wrote on Jul 7, 2008 3:58 PM:

I hope when you're old Sheila that you have high insurance!

sheila wrote on Jul 7, 2008 11:52 AM:

They should have higher insurance, they are a road hazzard.


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