Cars

Stereotypes, at the moment in my current job logging accidents and arrange repairs/hire cars after accidents I have found myself terribly guilty if stereotyping people. Quite often the stereotypes are irrelevant and do not apply...but then you get a few claims in a row where you internally roll your eyes and think "how obvious" and "I could've guessed"

Especially with logging accidents...stereotypes generally do not apply, in fact one that really irritates me is the young driver stereotype. 

It is generally thought that young drivers cause all the accidents with there youth and inexperience...however after logging claims you find that yes young drivers are involved in lots of accidents but that they rarely seem to be to blame. It quite often seems that the young drivers are being more cautious/hesitant at junctions and an impatient middle aged businessman too busy looking at his phone or fiddling with his onboard complex computer system in his big fancy BMW goes running into the back of the poor young driver who was just taking there time a little at the junction.

And in that paragraph I have encroached upon another stereotype...the BMW/Merc/Audi drivers stereotype...that these cars seem to be owned by people who think that there journey is more important than everyone else on the road. It really isn't. 

Of course I highlight again that these are indeed just stereotypes from my observations...not all young drivers are blameless and not all businessmen crash into the back of people...so lets have fun. ..

My new favourite stereotype is that people who drive Subaru Impreza's think there car is glued to the road at all times...when I log a claim with no other vehicle involved in the accident...just the driver and their machine, it is nearly always the scooby with the (typically male) driver who tells me he was going round a corner and 'just lost control' - how hard and fast were you pushing that car to just 'loose control' especially in such a 'planted' vehicle. It was clearly just your terrible judgement thinking your car could go around a 180 degree corner at a million miles an hour. No...just no. 

I have a lot more 'rant' inside of me...but for now I'll stick a cork in it.