Being Truthful About Vehicle Issues

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “Hubby say car ding wasn’t his bad?  Don’t believe him” suggested that spouses are often not truthful about traffic violation tickets they may receive, paying the vehicle insurance bill, putting a scratch or “ding” in the car, etc.

The actual statistics for such non truthful items follow.

1.  The percent of spouses who reported they did put a “ding’ in the car, yet did not report that fact to their spouse, but blamed it on someone else was 35 per cent!

2.  One fourth (24 per cent) of those surveyed reported that they did not report a traffic violation ticket to their spouses.

3.  Almost one fourth (24 per cent)of those surveyed confirmed that they did not report an accident to their spouses.

4.  Almost one fifth (19 per cent) of those surveyed admitted they did not tell their spouse when they forgot to pay a vehicle insurance bill.

5.  Almost one fifth (19 per cent) of those surveyed revealed they had knowingly driven a vehicle without a valid driver’s license but not shared that information with their spouses.

These above results were determined from a survey of 1,000 married couples completed by an insurance shopping and information site found at  >Insure.com<.        

Contact Andrea Shearer, Burton Heginger, Tessa Everman, or Ryan Edgington at Triplett Companies  (515/232-5240) for your insurance needs!  However, be sure to tell your spouse!