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7 The Insurance Corporation of
British Columbia has announced .
a 22 percent insurance rate in-

crease in an attempt'to catch up -

to a soaring number of injury-
‘related claims in the province.

“private passenger vehicles ~ will
increase by about $90, depen-~

by: Tod Strachan

’ .- “ICBC. has announced that this.
increase is effective immediately
» . On new .business:and-on Jan. 1, .~
-1988,. for regular. renewals. Ac-

cording. to information released
by ICBC. the rate increase will
mean -the average. premitim -for

ding.on the. vehicle and the

‘coverage purchased,

' According to ICBC President
Ted.Holmes, the cost of injury--
related claims had soared by 61

_ ‘percent to -$472, million. by. the
end of. 1986 and--the cost of .

repairing vehicle-damage had in-
creased’ by: 27. percent. in the

same. petiod to a total of $290

million. ae
'. Holmes said this pattern con-

tinued. into. 1987: and will pro- -

bably continue into .1988, mak-

. ing insurance rate increases in-
- evitable.

According to Holmes the
“‘modest increases” of the past

_preventable.”’

to keep pace with this trend.

“In the five years since 1982, ~
the average. Autoplan premium
has increased from $345 to $385,

a total of only 12 percent,”’ said -
Holmes. ‘‘It can be noted that in.

dustry estimates suggest that

‘ auto insurance premiums have.
increased by about 65 percent on — [,:

average..”’ " ,
Holmes said, .‘‘We must face .
the -reality. that our driving

habits in B.C, are not as good as

they: ‘should be. The latest.

'- Transport - Canada | statistics .

show that B.C. continues to lead
the country in the rate of injuries:
and fatalities.” :

“T believe we must all examine. - |

our driving habits. Speeding,

‘inot:signalling a lane change or a ‘[,
‘turn, :following too closely, run-_

ning yellow and red lights cause.
accidents and they: ‘are all
“All: that is needed is:a return
to obeying the rules. of. the
road,” hesaid. © ~~.
To help ease the burden of the

rate increases, Holmes announc-

ed that short term insurance and

-licences introduced for seasonal-

use vehicles in 1987 can now be
purchased for most vehicles pro-

five years:are no longer. enough

viding coverage for periods from

“According to RCMP Cpl. Rick Plantinga, most two-car auto accidents are
the fault of both drivers and could be prevented by one of the two watching
the road ahead. Defensive driving and concentrating on what you're doing
‘can prevent accidents at Intersections such as Sparks and Lazelle, one of

'- the more.dangerous Intersections in town according to Piantinga. Sparks,

a throughstreet except for this one intersection, and Lazelle, a street

. where you expect a stop sign at every major intersection, is an incon-

sistency that can confuse the preoccupled or unwary driver and creates a

' -trap-in-waiting-for the inattentive driver:

The Pacific Northwest Music
Festival recently announced that

- a three-day series of Speech Arts:
‘workshops will be held on Jan..

21 - 23, 1988 from 5 to 9 p.m: on
the Thursday and Friday, and

on. Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4
. p.m. The first two evenings will

present ideas for working with
dramatic and lyric poetry, bible

reading, mime, drama, and pro-

se. Saturday’s workshop will
focus on choral speaking with
class demonstrations in the
afternoon. Individual consulta-

tions will be available during the .

day on Thursday and Friday.
Clara Hare, a well-known
speech arts adjudicator and
‘drama teacher from Edmonton,
will conduct the workshops.
Mrs. Hare has a B.Ed. in Drama
and a diploma from the Central

School of Speech and Drama,,.
London. Her background in-

cludes a wide range of ex-
perience as an actress, director,
speech arts adjudicator, and
drama teacher. She is presently a
lecturer in Creative Drama at

Grant. MacEwan College and.

Head of the Film and T.V. Ac-
ting Program at John Casablan-

cas Career College in Edmon-_

ton. oe

‘Festival: representative Eila
George said, ‘‘Fhis is the first
comprehensive Speech Arts
‘workshop sponsored by
P.N.W.M.F. in many years, and
we hope that .all interested
teachers, parents, and students
in the festival region will take
advantage of this rare oppor-
tunity. The registration fee is
very reasonable and subsidized
by the Festival’’.

Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 2,. 19873 4 an

’ Ontario, in the same period, in- “|. .- "°° |

Bad drivers fuel high insurance rates

Crunched we

According to ICBG. President, Tom Holmes, “B.C. continues to lead the country ‘in the rate of injuries and
fatalities.” The estimated cost of injury-related clalms soared by 61 percent ta $472 million:batween 1983. and 1986
and the cost of-vehicle repairs increased to $290 million, a 27 percent increase, during the same perlod. The trand

continued into 1987 and will probably continue i

nto 1988,and as a result ICBC has announced an immediate 22 per- -

cent increase in our ‘auto Insurance rates.

_ six to eleven’ months.

ICBC also released examples
to indicate the extent of the in-.
crease, Terrace residents driving
1975 vehicles. or older, to and

from work, will be paying about ~

$374 (an.increase of $88), about
$556 for a'1984 or 1985 economy
model car (up $102) and for the
average new vehicle about $647
(up $116)... >: -

With the:.-increase, north-

western B.C: and northern. Van- _
couver Island residents fit into

the mid-range area of insurance

costs, with southern Vancouver.

Island paying less and the Lower
Mainland paying more.
Significant. in figures released

by ICBC was that the under-25_
driver in B.C. enjoys the lowest

insurance: rates in Canada. One

example given was a 17 year old’ |
driving a 1987 medium priced °

vehicle. paying $654 in Van-

couver, $2,133. in Calgary, —

Alberta, and $4,210 in

. One week left to register |

- for festival speech workshop |

‘Information . has been

‘distributed to the schools in Ter-

race, Prince Rupert, Smithers, —

and Kitimat. Registration forms
are available from the schools by

calling Bertha Watmough, .

Festival Secretary, at 635-6989,
or writing to Box 456, Terrace,

- V8G 4B5,

Registration closes on
December 11,

Trailer park proposed

Terrace council has sent a
rezoning application for the
development of a new trailer
park in the horseshoe area to the
Planning and Public Works
Committee for further study and
recommendation.

Filed by Ronald Parker on
behalf of Tom Olson of Horse-
shoe Developments Ltd. of Ter-
race, the application requests the
rezoning of an_ eight-acre
residential plot on the northeast
corner of Sparks and McConnell
intersection to make way for the
development,

Situated adjacent to ‘the new

Christy Park soccer fields,
Parker described the proposed —

development as a 50-pad trailer

court with an additional 10 ~

pads on McConnell Ave. which
would be sold as private sites for
mobile homes.

According to Parker, the pro-
perty was listed in the official
community plan as a residential-
rural area. It is presently being
used for agricultural purposes.

A committee recommendation

on the application is expected to -

be made to council at its next
regular meeting on Dec. 7.

Hamilton, Ontario, °
‘This compared with the over

25 driver who paid $584 in Van--
_couver, $554 in Ottawa, $746 in

Toronto and $834 in Windsor. .
According to Terrace RCMP

“Corporal. Rick Plantinga, B.C.
drivers’) can take . control - of

escalating insurance premiums

by simply re-assessing their driv-

ing habits, oo.
Plantinga said that -by:simply

thinking about, what we’re doing |

while in control of a motor vehi-
cle, driving defensively, wearing

seat belts, paying attention to °

existing road conditions . and
obeying the basic rules of the
road, motor ‘vehicle accidents
and injuries: would drop
Significantly, «°°.

- He added that if-the public

were to report the circumstances
of all incidents“to the RCMP
when bad drivers were creating a
safety hazard or ‘breaking the

basic rules of the road, it could —

jean a significant saving , to
everyone...in. dollars “and. in

lives. ©

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