Visitors Will Pay for Crashes

 

According to Huntington Beach, visitors are going to have to pay if they get into an accident on their turf. The California city says that they have put out too much money for those people who have had accidents there that do not live there and that is not fair to residents. As of right now, residents end up paying for these accidents through their taxes while non residents have not had to pay for emergency services.
 
They said that the new cost recovery program will bring in about $100,000 a year for the city – which is good considering the costs that it takes to help those that need them. Right now the city is paying the fee for getting these non residents out of their cars. They said that it costs them almost $2,000 to get them out of the wrecked car if they are stuck, then another $750 if the car is on fire and $405 for every hour that a fire truck has to respond to the scene – and that is per truck. Instead, they are going to start billing the auto insurance companies of the non residents up to $3,000 for their part of the bill.
 
They said that the auto insurance companies of these non residents should be responsible for the charges, not the tax payers of the city. If the person that is in the accident does not have auto insurance, then they will be billed directly for those emergency services. Residents will of course not be charged as they have already paid for those services whether or not they ever need them.







 

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