ACC won't cover motorbike accidents in future

[Usarka]

Yep, so the general consensis is we all think ACC is great, and we will personally kick any elected governments arse out the door if they so mention the fact they will 'can' ACC, or that everyone will have to buy into private health insurance.

Sarcasm? If so it's extremely well done.

[Ixion]

In a round about way they do - they don't ride their bike there - so its either trailered, on the back of a ute or in a van. All registered vehicles paying acc.

Nope. Trailers don't have an ACC levy component in licence fee. And the ACC levy for other vehicles only covers costs attributable to those vehicles. ie an accident riding a motorcycle does NOT come out of the car fund - it comes out of the motorcycle fund (cos the accident was on a motorcycle , duh). Paid for by levies on road bikes. If you loaded your trail bike on the back of your road bike, you might have an argument. Not many people do that.

ACC claim they separate out the off road accidents and counter debit the general fund. have have never been able to show us any process they have for this. We reckon it's bollocks. This is one of the pon going complaints BRONZ has with ACC.

[mossy1200]

Well this is interesting, ive always wondered this, as i thought motor cross bikes paid some levies in any event they entered which covered ACC. But yes, not for general day riding, how annoying, and so statistics for road bike accidents must be so mis construde is this is the case.

True but the acc content of bike rego is double the amount contained in car rego.Trailer rego has no acc content and those who have cars already and own regoed bikes pay on both.Also those with two bikes pay twice but cant ride both at same time.
Fairer system for rego is to pay for registered drivers licence.One person one amount.People go on about this being unfair as one car may have several drivers.Surely several drivers should pay several registered licences.Bit off topic sorry.

[MDR2]

Remeber 3 out of four broken bikers did so on a motorcross bike.There is more unregistered x bikes than road bikes and they pay no acc levy.
this means road bike cover their falls because when you fill out acc forms and nature of accident is motorcycle it goes on road bikes registration costs.
This is a variation to user pays called road rider pays.

They pay for SOME of the cost at the pumps when they fill the bikes up...

when i say some... i mean about | | this much

[MDR2]

ACC claim they separate out the off road accidents and counter debit the general fund. have have never been able to show us any process they have for this. We reckon it's bollocks. This is one of the pon going complaints BRONZ has with ACC.

Yeah i'd like to call bullshit on that one too. Im pretty sure there is a part of the ACC45 form that asks 'Did this happen on a public road - YES/NO'

But I doubt they go through with a fine tooth comb, i'm pretty sure it Car or Bike.

It makes more sense from a corporations (trying to make money) perspective to lump road and off road into one pool because it adds weight to the stats when it come time to crank up fees.

I'll do some poking around at work sometime if I can and find out for sure.

[monkeymcbean]

Yeah i'd like to call bullshit on that one too. Im pretty sure there is a part of the ACC45 form that asks 'Did this happen on a public road - YES/NO'

But I doubt they go through with a fine tooth comb, i'm pretty sure it Car or Bike.

It makes more sense from a corporations (trying to make money) perspective to lump road and off road into one pool because it adds weight to the stats when it come time to crank up fees.

I'll do some poking around at work sometime if I can and find out for sure

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Hmmmm dectective work, whats needed by a insider....do it do it, it will be interesting to see what you find out if you can.