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What a really heavy right foot could cost you
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 5:49PM
if you smash up a McLaren F1 supercar that is. Mr Bean (Rowan Atkinson) will find his premiums soaring after a UK record payout by his insurers. story here
As far as I'm concerned, I think he's very lucky to get offered car insurance again on this vehicle after two crashes in this powerful car. What say you? TC.
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:02PM
If his insurers are stupid enough to cover him again, even for £60,000 p.a. and even with a compulsory excess of 50% of the car's value, it's no wonder our insurance cover is spiralling ever upwards.
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:04PM
Maybe it's the left foot that's to blame.
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:05PM
I remember an old TV advert, in which Rowan managed to get blood out of a stone.
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:10PM
Was he using his left or right foot to kick the stone?
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:13PM
SillBill
Those numbers you're quoting are just an 'expert' opinion obtained by the Mail.
Actually, there's nothing in the story to say he has found someone to insure it at all.
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:19PM
Well if he's off the road, we can all feel safer!
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:43PM
The car was worth £3m, was fully insured, and cost £910,000 to repair. Why the insurance company would take "nearly eight months" to consider the claim is beyond me. I'm sure Mr Atkinson was already paying a hefty premium anyway. He might be better off looking for another insurance company.
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:47PM
Too much car, too little driver.
Sadly an all too common phenomena on the roads.
WTM
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Posted February 8, 2013 at 6:49PM
rdave13
He didn't pay anywhere near £3m for it and it was probably insured for about £600,000 so he was jolly lucky that they didn't just write it off and give him a cheque for half the insured value, but then, of course, he could well afford to pay for the repairs himself, couldn't he?
