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Drive without Insurance in Dallas, Have Your Car Towed

Dallas City Hall just sent out a press release to remind drivers that after Jan. 1, if you do not have insurance and are pulled over for any traffic violation,  you will have your vehicle towed.

Which is fantastic — now if only this new law was enacted and enforced state-wide. It stands to reason that if you are pulled over by a cop, and you do not have insurance then you should not be allowed to drive off in that car. What happens if you cause an accident moments after the cop lets you go?

DALLAS - Drivers with no proof of insurance will have their vehicles towed under a new policy that goes into effect Jan. 1. On that date, the Dallas Police Department will enforce the Uninsured Motorist Ordinance approved by the Dallas City Council on May 28.

Under this ordinance drivers stopped for a traffic violation who cannot show proof of auto insurance meeting state requirements will be issued a citation and will have his or her vehicle towed at the owner’s expense to the Dallas Auto Pound. The City already tows the vehicles of uninsured drivers involved in traffic accidents.

“The Dallas Police Department currently issues about 75,000 citations a year to motorists with no auto insurance,” said Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle. “In addition, officers towed over 3000 vehicles from accident scenes in 2007 where the driver did not have insurance. Motorists are urged to obtain the proper state required auto insurance to avoid having their vehicles towed.”

The new ordinance is in response to the large number of people driving in the City of Dallas without the proper state required auto insurance. These uninsured drivers place an unfair burden on those who comply with state law and maintain auto insurance. With the new ordinance, the city anticipates fewer of these citations as more drivers comply with the law to avoid having their vehicles towed.

Exactly.

Hopefully the city will not release the vehicles from impound until the owner is able to show that they have obtained the minimum amount of liability insurance as required by law.

The best way to enforce a law? Make it way too expensive and inconvenient NOT to obey that law.

Who will be most upset about his decision? Those who can’t get insurance because they 1)can’t afford it, or 2) can’t qualify for it. Groups like…oh, I don’t know…illegal immigrants?

I’d imagine that the usual suspects will be up in arms about this, defending the rights of the downtrodden to break the law and continue to drive uninsured. Groups like the ACLU, LULAC, etc.

Posted by Robbie Cooper on Monday, December 1st, 2008 | Trackback |

5 Responses to “Drive without Insurance in Dallas, Have Your Car Towed”

Who will be most upset about his decision? Those who can’t get insurance because they 1)can’t afford it, or 2) can’t qualify for it. Groups like…oh, I don’t know…illegal immigrants?

I’d imagine that the usual suspects will be up in arms about this…

I’ve got two words for them: Fuck ‘em.

This needs to go statewide - no, Nationwide - right now.

Left by Jason on December 1st, 2008 at 3:06 pm

We need a system like the JCI in Japan. When you register your car, you pay the JCI (Japanese Cumpulsory Insurance). Period.
Might be able to do away with Uninsured Motorist Coverage.
I believe we don’t have a system like JCI is because of the insurance companies.

Left by librlmarine on December 1st, 2008 at 3:14 pm

The system needs to be installed that allows police to check to see if insurance is in force.

Here’s why:

I have three large vehicles, one ‘79 Blazer and one a ‘89 Suburban. Both really heavy vehicles. One night, around 12:30 a.m., we heard a hugh crash. When we went outside a guy in a remodeled 70’s something Chevy pickup had slammed into the back of the Blazer and drove it 20 feet into the grill of the Suburban so hard that he bounced off and wound up in my neighbors yard. When the police came, he presented them with his insurance card and they wrote him a ticket and let him go.

The next day we found out his insurance has expired five months earlier. He had only put a down payment on his insurance, just enough to get his truck inspected and licensed. We tracked the guy down (he worked at Covert Chevrolet in Bastrop) and found out he was just a mechanic’s helper and didn’t make any money and didn’t own shit. So suing him would have only cost us money and we would still not get anything from him. We did the only thing we could do; turn it over to our insurance company. Our uninsured motorists insurance covered the damage to our vehicles.

The point of this is that unless the police have a way to check to make sure the insurance is still in effect, they are going to get handed a lot of insurance cards that are useless. And unless the police are willing to go to court and get a judge to issue arrest warrants, these people will just skate anyway. Since we live in a small town with an underpaid police force, no one did a damn thing about the guy who slammed into our vehicles.

Left by retire05 on December 1st, 2008 at 10:14 pm

Like you guys actually give a shit but my entire area of work has been sectioned off from Thursday this week.

I work at the LCB depot in Leicester city centre, UK and the Queen is paying a visit to a new theatre about ten feet down the road.

We’ve been prior warned with anyone accessing area from 6am through to 9pm will be drawn from their cars at gun point and searched.

Two things. I park next to this theatre so I’ll probably be searched.

Secondly, we have a delivery from Virgin Wines for our annual give a bottle of wine to customers week. So they’ll be searched at gun point. I just hope the wine stays in tact.
I’m not giving up any chateau neuf de pap for anyone, let alone the queen. And 3 cases at 10.99 a bottle (UK £) means you might see something on CNN (or fox as we are on Urban Grounds) which involves me stuffing a corgi up the Queens ass.

You’ve been warned.

Jonny

Left by Jonny on December 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 pm

So you don’t like the Queen Mum? Is it just because of the imminent inconvenience, or you just don’t like the lady?

Left by Robbie Cooper on December 2nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm

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