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bloody hell a grand! wow are you 17 or a mad man? 20 points, speeding at 100mph, a drunk? or do the insurance companies over there rip you off more than in UK?
I thought my 350.00 was bad.[ that includes all my mods].

Disgusting isn't it!
The insurance is actually in my wife's name,she is 49 (she's not gonna thank me for saying that) and she,nor I,have had any kind of accident or claim in the last 15-16 years since I have been living here.
In fact,I can't remember when I last had an accident and made a claim on the insurance in the UK,it was probably in the mid-80's when someone rear ended my XR3i.
I think it's basically expensive here because of the amount of un-insured drivers there are in Belgium,that and the fact that so many new and young driver's own hot hatches and high performance cars.
A lot of them,though not all,get given a car or money when they reach 18 by their parents/grandparents and often it's 3-series BMW's,Audi A4's etc.
Every weekend on the national news there's reports of fatal accidents involving teenage drivers,driving too fast or under the influence,and then mum and dad are quoted as saying "He was such a careful driver,never touched alcohol".

A couple of years ago there was such an accident just a short distance from where we live,a teenage male driver was taking a couple of young girls from one nightclub to another at 3am,lost control and killed the three of them.The police calculated the speed just before the accident at 125kph.The limit for that road is 70kph.

There is very little police presence on the roads here,and the standard of driving reflects this,people driving whilst using mobile phones,driving with a dog on their lap,no seat belts,young children standing on the seats or standing gazing out of the windscreen.