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Rental car accident. Who pays

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Rental car accident. Who pays Not sure if right place to post but if not, please let me know where to cross post.. I rented a car through Expedia and chose a car from budget and took the third party AIG insurance. I declined budget’s collision insurance because i didn’t understand why I needed more coverage than what my Amex covers and the third party along with my personal …

Reddit Personal Finance 890 2024-06-16

Curmudgucation: The Panic Is No Accident

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Curmudgucation: The Panic Is No Accident Curmudgucation: The Panic Is No Accident There was a curious piece in Education Week Friday, in which Deborah Loewenberg Ball ponders the question, “Why Is the Nation Invested in Tearing Down Public Education?”  She focuses in particular on the most recent iteration: For the past four years, we have been retelling a shared narrativ…

The Best Education Blog 1.1k 2024-05-12

LPT: When there’s an accident or a crime involving a car; record video of the license plate and read it aloud

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LPT: When there’s an accident or a crime involving a car; record video of the license plate and read it aloud There are plenty moments when you can’t get a clear shot with a photo (glare, resolution, etc) but your eyes can clearly see the letters and numbers. Record and read. This is more for when you’re a bystander, or the car that hit you is speeding off, hit and run type encounters, etc. If you get into a fender bender and the person is an honest per…

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Missed a payment on accident… what are my options?

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Missed a payment on accident… what are my options? So, about a 6 months ago I did a 0% balance transfer to Bank of America. I then set it up on Auto Pay (or so I thought). It was a transfer to get rid of some high APR debt, then set it and forget it. And forget it I did. About two months ago I got an alert from Credit Karma that I missed a payment on an account and it’s affecting my score. It wa…

Reddit Personal Finance 1.2k 2024-04-29

Insurance Agent reached out to me 1 year after accident.

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Insurance Agent reached out to me 1 year after accident. About a year ago my car was deemed a total loss in an accident involving like 8 or so cars (my car was parked). Unfortunately the at fault driver didn’t survive and probably passed before impact. My insurance offered me a decent value for my car (it was less than a year old) so they payed off the bank and gave me the remainder in cash, and just …

Reddit Personal Finance 962 2024-04-13

Is buying a rebuild title vehicle with no accident history smart idea?

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Is buying a rebuild title vehicle with no accident history smart idea? Hey, I have found a used car that is going for 6k. I inquired about the car and the owner told me it’s in perfect condition except for a rebuilt title. Apparently, the car was driven by his cousin who was high on drugs at one point in time and parked it in a place that he completely forgot about and as a result reported it stolen. A few weeks l…

Reddit Personal Finance 1.2k 2024-03-20

Waze Can Now Help You Stay Off Accident-Prone Roads

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Waze Can Now Help You Stay Off Accident-Prone Roads Waze, Google Maps’ more helpful cousin, is adding yet another useful feature. After almost a year of beta testing, Waze is now introducing a new alert system for accident-prone roads, so you’ll know to be on high alert when turning on a street with a history of incidents. Read more…

Lifehacker 898 2024-02-26

Waze rolls out crash history alerts for accident-prone roads

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Waze rolls out crash history alerts for accident-prone roads Waze will warn you when a route is crash-prone. | Image: WazeWaze has a new safety feature that launches an alert when drivers are coming up on a particularly crash-prone section of their route. Waze’s blog post says the feature, which has been in beta since last year, uses “historical crash data and key information about your route” like traffi…

The Verge 601 2024-02-20

Car Accident. Insurance not paying car in full

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Car Accident. Insurance not paying car in full So ealier this year imI financed a car for $26,000. Two weeks ago my car was hit on the side, called my insurance and they declared it a total loss. Today I called them and they told me they are only giving me $20,000 while I still owe $24,000 so the other 4,000 will come from me and I still have to get another car. What can I do, I need money t…

Reddit Personal Finance 984 2024-02-01

Bankruptcy 13 filing interrupted by a car accident

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Bankruptcy 13 filing interrupted by a car accident Here’s the situation a good friend of mine is in right now: -$42k of credit card debt, got sued by one of the banks so had to file bankruptcy 13 today -House owner, car owner. Without the car, has to pay 11k. With the car (paid off), had to pay 31k. -Coming back from the bankruptcy lawyer 2 days ago (Before filing it today), gets in a car accide…

Reddit Personal Finance 375 2024-02-01