Even new cars are known to be involved in crashes. Photo / Duncan Brown
What utterly specious reasoning from ACC, which claims levies on private motor vehicles will mean safer cars and fewer crashes.
The corporation is looking into using a system that will charge those who own safer (modern) cars lower fees each year than owners of less safe (older) cars. Do they
really think the owner of a perfectly safe and sound 10-year-old Toyota Corolla that has never and will never break down will upgrade their vehicle for the sake of saving $100?
Buying a car is the most uneconomic purchase you will ever make. The moment you drive it off the yard, it starts to lose money.
Most people buy a car to get from A to B. Accordingly, you buy what you can afford. People on low incomes tend to buy old clunkers because that's all they can afford.
They're not driving unsafe old dungers because they want to. It's not as if they have a spare $20,000 sitting in an old Milo tin for flash new wheels.
