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Pretty much all fatal single-car accidents are suicides, IIRC. Cops play nice with the grieving family so they can get their life insurance benefits.
by BeFlatXIII 5y ago
Pretty much all fatal single-car accidents are suicides, IIRC. Cops play nice with the grieving family so they can get their life insurance benefits.
- rscnt 5y agoDo you have sources for this? Here in El Salvador we have highways without lamps, streets that drivers treat as highways, crosswalk where you cannot longer see the painting. I guess you're referring to the U.S., right?
- gfody 5y agoare you counting unintentional like falling asleep behind the wheel?
- wahern 5y agoIn much (most? all?) of the United States, life insurance contracts generally cover suicide, except that individual policies will typically have 2-3 year exclusion period. My individual term life policy has a 2-year exclusion period, but otherwise covers suicide. I can't track down the precise reasons for this, whether its related to case law, state statutes, etc. Closest hit I found for California was Insurance Code § 11066(h), but that's for policies issued by fraternal societies. (It probably echoes some other statute or case law.) There are endless Google hits from law and insurance web sites stating this general fact.
- lazyasciiart 5y agoThat's completely false. Among many other factors, about 50% of single-car crashes involve passengers, which would imply a disturbingly high number of murder-suicides.
- radicaldreamer 5y agoI think maybe OP meant single passenger car accident
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoYes, single-occupant single-car crashes.