Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site rpics.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rpics!weltyrp From: weltyrp@rpics.UUCP (Richard Welty) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics,net.legal,net.auto Subject: Re: Re: DWI Crackdowns Message-ID: <160@rpics.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 20:08:51 EDT Article-I.D.: rpics.160 Posted: Sat Aug 10 20:08:51 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 04:04:49 EDT References: <202@SCIRTP.UUCP> <378@kontron.UUCP> <586@ttidcc.UUCP> <237@SCIRTP.UUCP> <205@brl-tgr.ARPA> <263@SCIRTP.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: RPI CS Department, Troy NY Lines: 36 Xref: linus net.flame:10622 net.politics:9732 net.legal:1672 net.auto:6571 > > 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) CSNet: weltyrp@rpi ArpaNet: weltyrp.rpi@csnet-relay UUCP: seismo!rpics!weltyrp