Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site crystal.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!crystal!shp From: shp@crystal.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Re: DWI Crackdowns Message-ID: <499@crystal.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 18:39:00 EDT Article-I.D.: crystal.499 Posted: Wed Aug 14 18:39:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 23:44:32 EDT References: <202@SCIRTP.UUCP> <378@kontron.UUCP> <586@ttidcc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: The Life Is A Rock Foundation Lines: 33 > > 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.