Your Car Insurance Is Going Up Because Everyone Keeps Texting And Driving

Jo Ling Kent and Chiara Sottile, NBC News
Sat, 02/25/2017 - 1:11pm

Insurance companies say one of the reasons that rates are spiking is that drivers distracted on their smartphones and getting into accidents.

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