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January 14, 2007
Filed Under (Rants and Raves) by John Davis
So says Dr. Jay Falk with the Florida College of Emergency Physicians and academic chairman of emergency medicine for Orlando Regional Medical Center. The quote is from an article about Florida’s lack of a mandatory motorcycle insurance law. (Washington and Florida are the only two states that do not require motorcyclists to carry insurance.) The thrust of the article is that by not requiring insurance, Florida makes motorcycle ownership more attractive to young riders, specifically teens, who then crash and die. To bolster the argument they offer the following examples:
Sorry, but a 23-year-old man is not a teen; nor I suspect would a law requiring him to carry insurance have necessarily kept him off a bike or kept him from violating traffic laws. But wait, there’s more; referring to crash involving the three Palm Bay teens:
So not only did they not have insurance, they did not have motorcycle LICENSES. The deaths are tragic, certainly. But please, someone explain to me how a law requiring these riders to have insurance would have prevented these deaths? The lack of a legally-required license did not stop them; why would lack of legally-required insurance? Quoting from the same article:
Huh, so the older riders that have insurance crash and die too? Interesting…
Comments:
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Animal on January 17th, 2007 at 9:00 pm #
Sorry man, can’t agree here. If the teen would have had insurance (which, you’re right, he probably wouldn’t have regardless of laws) the teenage girl’s parents would have some recourse to recoup at least funeral expenses. Now they will probably sue the parents of the boy driving. Who win in that? Driving without insurance in any state or any vehicle is just plain stupid, IMHO, and can only result in financial disaster and should be required everywhere. Post a comment
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