Do you have to buy Car Insurance?
In an ideal world, nobody would get into car accidents because everyone would follow the traffic laws and nobody would make mistakes. Unfortunately, we don’t live in an ideal world. We do get into accidents and we do have to pay for the damages they cause. In order to pay for the damages of these accidents, we buy car insurance.
Once you have a car and are ready to put it on the road, you need to get insurance. Look for a policy carefully. Don’t just go for the cheapest one or the first one you can find. You want a low price, but you want to have good coverage. If you get bad coverage, you could end up paying even more than what you are saving on cheap monthly payments. Get a car and get insurance, these are your first steps.
Is it really required to get car insurance? Do you have to have it? Yes. If you live in the U.S. you must have your cars insured. If you were to get into an accident, you will have a huge mess without insurance, as will the other person involved in the accident.
When you get into a car accident with another vehicle involved, both insurance companies, or the same one if you both have the same insurance company, have to communicate and arrange payments. Without insurance, you will have to pay a lot of money and you will get into a lot of trouble.
If you have insurance, over time, you will actually save money. If you have a policy that you are paying $100 a month, you are paying $1,200 a year, or $2,400 over w years. What will happen if you get into an accident and your car is totaled?
If you were at fault and both cars were totaled, you would have to pay the entire value of both cars. This will depend on the age of the car and type of the car. If the value of both cars put together was $10,000 and you were covered under insurance, you would only have to pay a deductible, which you decide on when you set up the policy. It’s usually just a few hundred dollars.
Let’s say you do have to pay a $500 deductible. Over two years, you pay $2,400 plus the $500 deductible. If you didn’t have insurance, you wouldn’t have paid the $2,400, but you would have had to pay the $10,000 and you would pay $7,100 more. That is a huge savings if you had insurance.
You might think you’ll never get into an accident, but accidents aren’t planned. You never know when they might happen. Your only other option would be to walk or ride your bike around. Get insurance and pay the fees. It makes life much easier and isn’t that expensive anyway.