paying the price
Katie Price reveals eye-watering amount she pays for car insurance after drink drive crash and ban
KATIE Price has revealed she has to pay £14,000 a year for her car insurance.
The 45-year-old is finally back behind the wheel after flipping her vehicle while over the drink-drive limit.
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But Katie admitted it has been very hard to get the insurance she needs because of her history with driving.
Speaking on a TikTok live yesterday, she said: “No insurance company will insure me on a new car or anything flash, nothing.
“So I am just lucky to be on the road in the car I am in, it’s not the car I want to be driving but no one will insure me. I have to wait a year to be able to get a new again.
“The quotes I had for my insurance on a normal car that is £15k was £73k, one was £53k and one was £33k, and they were my quotes because no one else would insure me because of who I am.
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“It’s discrimination because if someone else had the same as me and they had a normal job, they wouldn’t charge that much, it’s way more than the car.”
But Katie came up with a plan to lower the price, she explained: “Then I changed it to author and the insurance is £14k for a year but it’s still not the car I want.
“I don’t care. I am on the road so it is what it is. I shouldn’t have done what I did, so you have to pay the price.
"So in a years’ time I will get the car I want and until then I am grateful.”
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She has been spotted driving an Infiniti around, which sell for around £9k second hand.
Katie was given a suspended 16-week jail term in December 2021.
At the time, Judge Amanda Kelly said Price had “one of the worst driving records I have seen”.
But her lawyer negotiated that “mental health” at the time of her sentencing, argued PTSD and a suicide attempt was the reason she drove while under the influence.
Speaking about the incident, Katie said: "I could have killed myself.
"I could have killed someone else. I deserved to be punished, enough was enough.
"Getting in the car was a terrible mistake I’m so sorry for.
"That was a prime example of me having been triggered and not knowing how to handle it, an example of me spiralling out of control because I needed help."
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