K5 Insurance

Attention!!! Our hours going into the long weekend are changing. Saturday we are closing EARLY! Saturday will be 9am-4pm and CLOSED MONDAY as well for the holiday. We will reopen on Tuesday September 7th for our usual store hours. Everyone have a great long weekend.

Reminder!! Our office will be closed July 1st for Canada Day!

Over the first two months of 2021, 81 passenger vehicle-related fire claims have been opened with us, double the number that occur within the same time frame in a normal year.

Half of these preventable vehicle fires were related to the use of block heaters. A number of other fires were related to interior car warmers and household interior heaters being used to warm vehicles in outdoor garages and carports. Some of these fires resulted in houses or carports also catching fire.

Remember:
- The use of an interior electric heater in an outdoor winter setting is extremely dangerous
- Block heaters are intended to be used in cold climates to warm an engine prior to starting the vehicle
- As a general rule, an engine block heater should be used when the temperature drops below -15
- It’s strongly discouraged to plug in a vehicle which is parked in an attached garage

For more preventative tips, see our news release: https://www.mpi.mb.ca/Pages/nr2021feb10.aspx

: In winter, traction is reduced affecting your ability to get out of snow, make a turn or stop. As a general rule, stopping distance is doubled on wet pavement, tripled on packed snow and up to 10 times longer on an icy road.

Slowing down will maintain traction and decrease your total stopping distance.

Male drivers aged 34 and under account for more than half the speed-related Serious Driving Offences recently issued.

A total of 522 speed-related Serious Driving Offences were forwarded to us from January to the end of December 2020, a nearly 60 per cent increase from the same time frame in 2019.

Over 50 per cent of these “super speeders” were caught on the following roadways: Highway 100/101 (Perimeter Hwy), Highway 16, Highway 1, Highway 6 and Highway 59, according to RCMP data.

For more information, please see our media release: https://www.mpi.mb.ca/Pages/nr2021jan15.aspx

: The use of winter tires increases traction, making it easier to get out of the snow and can cut stopping distance by 25 per cent or more. Our Winter Tire Program provides low-interest financing on winter tires. Learn more here: https://www.mpi.mb.ca/en/Rd-Safety/Winter-Tires/Pages/winter-tire-program-overview.aspx