 | Kathy Adkins is a manager with PrePaid Legal and works closely with many families and individuals to help them have peace of mind by protecting the legal rights of their lives and careers. Kathy comes to PrePaid Legal after a long career in nursing and a couple of college degrees from WSU. Kathy is a seminar presenter on several subjects and a “Distinguished Toastmaster”. Kathy works with many area businesses to help protect them from the increased number of Identity Theft issues and regulations that are now part of federal regulations. Kathy is one of a few “Certified Identity Theft Specialists” in the Wichita area and will present free to your group or company to show you how to protect your company and employees. Kathy works closely with the Derby and Haysville Chamber of Commerce and the business referral group “Business Network International” Kathy can be reached for questions or speaking engagements by phone (316) 529-8565 or by e mail at kadkins3@cox.net Visit the web site www.prepaidlegal.com/hub/kathyadkins to see more on protecting your rights for pennies a day. |
Legal
2007-07-30 15:23:00
Red lights and sirens
Congratulations!! You have just joined 46% of the driving public. Speeding tickets do several things, they cost you time and money, they raise your insurance rates (sometimes for 10 years at a time) and they label you as a bad driver. We all know that teen drivers have really expensive rates to begin with because they tend to have more accidents and less experience. If you are the parent of a teen then you are aware of how troublesome these can be.
I will guess that there isn’t ONE driver in Wichita that hasn’t at one time or another exceeded the limit when we weren’t paying attention. We talk on cell phones, eat, talk to passengers and do many things that take our attention away from driving. Kellogg is known for people who want to drive 70-80 MPH and as such the Wichita Police Dept sets up speed checks to slow things down. I am delighted to see the radar guns and lines of police cars set up along Kellogg and 21st street. Some Wichita drivers take driving to a whole new level and it isn’t funny for those around them. Going 10 miles over the speed limit can cost you in excess of $200.
Think about this, you reach over to adjust your radio or pick up your ringing cell phone, suddenly there is a terrible accident and someone may have died. Do you have $40,000- $100,000 set aside to take care of those expenses? Your car insurance company isn’t interested in this area of expense. I don’t EVER want to be in that situation but I know full well that things happen we don’t expect so advance planning is the ONLY logical solution.
As sure as the sun comes up in the east, one of us is going to wait too long to leave the office, be held up by a train or had a friend stay too long to visit. We MUST be on the other side of town and the minutes to get there are short. You think that maybe just a little over the limit, now what is the “rule?” 5 MPH over and they won’t stop you??? I have news for you, ONE MPH over can get you that undesired piece of pink paper. Are you on vacation in Texas and you honestly didn’t know you were over the limit. Do you think the Texas Highway Patrol cares that you didn’t see that sign 10 miles ago?? No, but you have as Garth Brooks says you have “friends in high places” to take the sting out of that unexpected encounter with out of state law enforcement. Be protected in all 50 states.
