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From: augustc@zeus.UUCP (Augustine T. Chan)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Volvo's saftey -- Hard data
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 23:05:41 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 24 23:05:41 1985
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>According to 8-19-85 USA Today, the auto insurance industry released data
>on the personal injury rates for 1982-1984 cars sold in the US based on
>the number of insurance claims.  A rating of 100 is average.

Since I did not read the article, I have a couple of questions with
regard to computation of the rating:

1. Is it based on the total number of claims of a model or is it
based on the number of claims per (e.g. 100) automobile(s) of a model?

2. Is there any relationship between the number of claims of a model
and the average risk rating of its drivers, i.e., are we looking at the
safety rating of the different models or are we looking at the safety rating
of their drivers?

						Augustine C.