Car Insurance for the Moon!

[kevdale]

Some interesting news I just read saying that if you add up the average mileage of the UK motorist, combined, would be to the moon and back, again and again, each year!

Apparently we drive on average nearly 5% more than we did in 2000 - despite everyone telling us to hop on our bikes (I cycle a lot). Just makes you think doesn't it.

http://www.moneyexpert.com/informati...cleID=19724256

[mycarsavw]

Some interesting news I just read saying that if you add up the average mileage of the UK motorist, combined, would be to the moon and back, again and again, each year!

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http://www.moneyexpert.com/informati...cleID=19724256

I think you may need to read it again. It didn't say anything of the sort.

[They] looked at the average mileage driven by two million motorists and discovered that if all the motorists in the UK drove the average of 7,755 miles a year it would total over 267 billion miles, the equivalent to 2,286,730,769 laps of the M25 motorway!

The figure is in fact far further than NASA’s official distance, which states that the moon is on average 238,857 miles away from the Earth.

[KidChameleon]

I thought the UK average was 12-15,000 miles.

[McMav]

Well I've bucked the trend since 2000 I've cut my mileage from 16k a year to around 12k.

[slugs]

i used to drive 72k per year. now work "locally" and do around 20k makes a real difference.

it was a strange when i used to work it out i should of spend six hours a day in my car if i travelled at the speed limit