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From: weltyrp@rpics.UUCP (Richard Welty)
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Subject: Re: Re: DWI Crackdowns
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> > What about revoking (through law) of the offender's license AND insurance?
> > True, it will then take another arrest to finally put them away (because
> > driving w/out a license and/or insurance is illegal), but would it be a
> > little more sane that confiscating the auto (what if it was stolen?) or 
> > forcing them to ride a motorcycle (absurd).
> > 
> > -Steve
> 
> Steve-
> 
> What if you or I were hit by an uninsured driver?
> We could tally huge medical bills with no means
> to pay for them. I think you can never confiscate
> someone's automobile liability insurance because
> others will often suffer the most.
> 
> -Todd 
These problems are worse than can be imagined.  About 10 years ago my father
was in an accident.  A cop was sitting in his cruiser in a parking lot, and
saw the whole thing.  The other driver, uninsured and with a suspended
license was clearly at fault, and was duly charged and convicted.  But the
lack of a license and insurance didn't stop her, nor was there any guarentee
that she wouldn't put it again ...

Incidentally, the passenger in her  car sued my father for medical expenses
since she couldn't get anything out of the party at fault ...
-- 
				Rich Welty

	(I am both a part-time grad student at RPI and a full-time
	 employee of a local CAE firm, and opinions expressed herein
	 have nothing to do with anything at all)

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