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Top 5 Tips for Sharing the Road Safely with Pedestrians

May 12th, 2011

The numbers for car-pedestrian collisions are sobering. From 2005 to 2009, there were 224,000 collisions involving pedestrians and single-passenger vehicles. Of those accidents, 13,193 were fatal. But even more sobering are the circumstances in which those pedestrians were hit.

Though you might imagine otherwise, the most common scenario in which a pedestrian and car collide is when a person is crossing the road and the vehicle is going straight — this is how it happens 95 percent of the time. In many of those cases (54 percent), nothing is obscuring the driver’s vision. And the driver usually fails to brake.

In fact, drivers who hit pedestrians while traveling straight hit the brakes only 13 percent of the time. And

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Employer Liability Insurance from Hiscox, Your Preparation to Face the Unpredictable Future

May 10th, 2011

If you have a business, you are said to have full responsibility for both your business and your employees. For your business, you are required to make every valuable effort to support the business. But when it comes to your employees, you are required to protect them from any issue and give enough compensation in case something unexpected happens. Employers Liability Insurance is known as the best solution for many business owners, even you. By having specific business insurance, you can rest assured that you are more than ready to face something in the future.

There are a number of reasons why you need the insurance.

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How To Buy A Boat Insurance – Useful Information And Advice

May 8th, 2011

Believe it or not many boat owners still do not know how to buy boat insurance. Water sports lovers consider their boat as an all-in-one recreational and leisure vehicle as they can use their boat for fishing, wakeboarding, waterskiing, sailing or riding to their holiday destination, or simply for lounging around. However, what they often forget is that their boats are also their investment and still require an important investment because of their vulnerability to external risks due to constant usage and storage in water. Thus, getting boat insurance is such a wise idea. Now, if you have to decided to insure your boat but are not sure how, read on and learn how to buy boat insurance. Read more…

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Vietnam’s economy: Doing battle against inflation

May 7th, 2011

TO HONOUR the dead, the Vietnamese sometimes burn fake banknotes, made out of “votive paper”, for the deceased to spend on the other side. Vietnam’s government recently complained that this votive money looked too similar to the real thing. Unfortunately the resemblance runs deeper than that. Over the past year the value of Vietnam’s official currency—the dong—has been steadily going up in smoke.

Consumer prices rose by 17.5% in the year to April, outstripped only in Ethiopia and Venezuela. The dong has been devalued against the dollar six times since June 2008 (see chart). The Vietnamese have flocked to more reliable stores of value. Those hopin

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Teen Driving: 6 Essential Safety Tips

May 5th, 2011

So your son or daughter is approaching driving age — how’d that happen so fast? No doubt your teen is desperate to be given the keys to the family car, or perhaps for a car of his or her own. It’s something that most parents face with varying degrees of anticipation and dread. So in honor of National Youth Traffic Safety Month

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