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A cut, sure, but the whole fuckin thing? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] RidderSport@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, honestly that's just untruthful. Any collision in a modern car needs an entire new front, because of damages to the fragile pedestrian safety systems and the electronics. A new bumper on a 2017 VW is around 1500 Euros painted. Another 1500 for the head lights, the labour cost is obviously country dependent. But even a small accident in a parking lot has damages almost 5 figure high when two modern cars are involved.

When you get into a really bad accident on a highway and dozens of vehicles get damaged, the road is damaged, the cargo of trucks gets damaged etc, you can easily get into the millions if vehicles get totaled or the cargo is expensive. And you car insurance also covers damages to the passengers. If you cripple a child for example, that is at least 10 million in damages, for the pain, the lack of a normal life, the renovation of the hoise of the parents as well as the car, etc.

Damages can become extrodiarinally high, so high in fact that you're better of killing someone im Germany (by accident) than to just cripple them as that is much much more expensive.