Nov 27 / author

Cheap Young Driver Insurance Arizona AZ

Reader’s Question:

We’ll be adding our son as a named driver in our car insurance policy here in Arizona as soon as he gets his permanent license. Since he is a young driver and we are told that the rates will be higher for him, is there still a way that we can have cheap car insurance?

Gage

North Pinal, AZ

Young drivers who are under the age of 25 are considered to be the highest risk to car insurance companies because they have so many accidents in which they are to blame. Car insurance providers attempt to control young drivers (age 16-24) from having more accidents by charging them higher car insurance premiums than drivers who belong to another age bracket. You may very well add your son in your car insurance policy in Arizona even though it may not do so much. However, you can get discounts such as multiple cars and safe-driver discounts if your son completed a defensive driving course.

If you’ll get him his own car, make sure that the one that he drives is an economy model, one that is not so high to insure. He may just opt to drive an older car because it is usually considered as lower risk to car insurance providers since the cost to repair or replace it would be not as high as it would be for newer model cars. If the car insurance providers consider it as low risk, this means lower car insurance rates for you and your young driver. If you so this, he can have car insurance policy on his own rather than being a named driver on your policy.

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