Why are motorists billed a lot for crashing into state property?
Did you think that hitting a Rolls-Royce was going to raise your auto insurance? As a matter of fact, motorists can be billed as much as $325,000 for crashing into state property. It really is going to be costly for motorists if they crash into property that belonged to states.
Here are the repairs for which motorists are very likely to get billed:
- Guardrails
- Fencing
- Sod or turf
- Electric control boxes
- Light poles
- Traffic signals
- Highway signs
- Buttresses or bridge overpasses
- Damage estimates, hazardous material cleanup, man hours for traffic control
- Attenuators (these are protective barrels that are placed by bridge supports or as lane dividers)
Deborah Harris from the California DOT, claims, “We will bill the responsible party directly.” She is saying that the uninsured and someone else was driving your car you are still going to have to pay for those damages. That’s what she was trying to say here.
Spokesperson of DOT in New York, Peter Graves says, “We aren’t going to expect you to pay a huge bill if your car was stolen and involved in an accident, as long as you haven’t contributed to the theft by leaving your keys in the car or something similar.”
In order to avoid crashing into state property, it is very important to be a safe driver. Drinking while driving, not buckling up, eating while driving and other factors are all things that will indicate a bad driver. It is important to know how to drive safely, in order to lower your premiums and decrease your risk of getting into fatal accidents.