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Subject: Re: Re: DWI Crackdowns
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 18:39:00 EDT
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> > What if you or I were hit by an uninsured driver?

> Unfortunately, here in Illinois it is NOT illegal to drive without liability
> insurance.  Our illustrious state legislators have many times failed to pass
> compulsory insurance legislation.  There are many, many, uninsured drivers
> here.  To compound the insult, those of us who are insured pay an
> additional premium to cover being injured by an uninsured motorist.
> There must be something in the water down there in Springfield.
> -- 
> Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan

    [ If someone wants to forward this into net.auto, net.legal, and net.
    politics, fine, but I'll be damned if I'm going to crosspost net.flame!]

    Speaking as a (happily) displaced Flatlander, Illinois DOES have some-
    thing comparable to the mandatory insurance law.  Bill is quite correct
    in that it is legal to drive without liability insurance, but the fine
    point is that you must have some kind of coverage.  If you've got $20K
    sitting around in an old shoebox somewhere, great, blow off your liability
    insurance ($20K was minimum coverage last time I knew, a couple of years
    ago).  Otherwise, take out a policy.  If you are at fault in an accident,
    and cannot pay, they take your license, your registration, and ALL plates
    off ALL your vehicles (not just the one you hit something with) until you
    pay off the damage, and show that you're currently covered (either with
    proof of an insurance policy or a $20K cash bond).  It takes them about a
    year to get around to this.  
	Moral:  The wheels turn slowly, but they DO turn.

		=shp

    [ Steve Patterson, Computer Sciences, UW - Madison ]

	Time wounds all heels.