Nayan and Jacob - A pedestrian accident?

[MisterE]

Just thinking about the current news around the two young kids being hit by a car in Christchurch. Under ACC is this classified as a "Pedestrian" accident?

So lets compare. If a car hits a pedestrian does payment for treatment come out of the car fund or the consolidated fund? For ACC to be consistent the answer should be that funds should come out of the consolidated fund. If money is coming out of the car fund then ACC are breaking their own stated rules around not "assigning blame."

Why is this useful for us? How about calling for a 5-10% reduction in registration fees for cars based on incorrect assignment of costs by ACC. After all, ACC has a duty to apply charges in a fair and reasonable manner. If ACC agrees they'll look like complete morons. People may be happy with the concept of motorcyclists being a bunch of lemmings that throw themselves under any moving vehicle at the first opportunity. I doubt that the NZ public will be so understanding about explaining why pedestrians suffer from the same affliction.

As always, there are risks. For those who are about to mention those, let me first ask you how much worse it could possibly get.

[MSTRS:Me]

Vehicle hits pedestrian = motor fund. For everything.

[bogan]

The no blame ACC relates to the individual, but a car driver caused the accident, so it comes out of the motor vehicle account, otherwise it would be a victim pays scheme, which is obviously bullshit. In their statistical manipulation of our levies, there was a bit reducing levies by a factor as its not all biker fault. So basically, they do apply same rules for pedestrians as bikers.