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There were 7,136 automobile collisions in Anchorage in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.muni.org\/Departments\/works\/traffic\/engineering<\/span><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Not surprisingly, the majority of those collisions occurred from Monday through Friday and during the winter months.\u00a0\u00a0 Of those 7,136 collisions, .25% resulted in fatalities and 29.92% were reported as injury accidents.\u00a0 However, experience has shown us that many people do not realize that they are injured in a motor vehicle accidents until a few hours later and many of these latent injuries are often times serious.<\/p>\n

In 2011, there were 192,733 passenger vehicles registered in Anchorage.\u00a0 http:\/\/doa.alaska.gov\/dmv\/research\/curreg11.htm.<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Assuming\u00a0that there was an average of two cars in each of the 7,136 collisions, that means that 14,272 vehicles were involved in accidents in 2011.\u00a0 In other words, seven per cent (7%) of cars registered in Anchorage were in accidents.\u00a0 With odds like that, it is only a matter of time until everyone in Anchorage is involved in an accident and those odds increase if you drive to work Monday through Friday during the winter.<\/p>\n

Thirty-one per cent (31%) of those collisions were rear end accidents.\u00a0\u00a0 It happens all of the time.\u00a0 One driver stops at a stop sign or a stop light and the driver behind him is driving too fast or not paying attention and slams into him.\u00a0 The innocent driver\u2019s injuries can run the gamut from sprains and strains to herniated discs, rotator cuff injuries, wrist injuries and knee injuries.<\/p>\n

Injuries from accidents can cause not only physical discomfort but the need for medical treatment, possibly surgery and time lost from work, all of which is unfair when all the injured driver was doing was driving to work in the winter, like most of us, and stopped at an intersection.\u00a0 The problem is that thirteen per cent (13%) of Alaskan drivers are uninsured despite the fact that driving without insurance carries stiff penalties.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, drivers who don\u2019t obey the law and buy insurance also frequently don\u2019t obey traffic laws.\u00a0If that were not bad enough, there is a significant amount of hit and run accidents in Alaska as the result of drivers attempting to escape responsibility for their bad driving.\u00a0 Many of them are unlicensed and uninsured as well.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that it\u2019s important for your own protection to purchase uninsured\/underinsured motorists coverage.\u00a0 The minimum coverage available is $50,000\/$100,000 but that is rarely enough to cover lost wages and medical costs in the event of any kind of surgery, much less in the event of a serious disabling injury.<\/p>\n

Fore more information regarding insurance, visit my website:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.keenanpowell.com\/faq-mva.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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