Another one that should not of been here

[ancient-one]

Going to work earlier this week my great grandson was involved in a wreck. A guy from Central America with some kind of a work permit but no drivers license came backing out of a drive in onto a heavily traveled 4 lane road and my grandson couldn't miss him.
Funny, no drivers license but had insurance but we don't know how good yet.
My grandsons pride and joy, a slick Honda Civic may be totaled. The guy got a ticket but I am sure he is still driving around and is a hazard to other drivers.

 

[Grayfox]

Illegals driving illegally has becoming a common problem.
A few years ago my son sold a car to a Latino guy. A couple of months later he got a letter from Memphis Police saying his car was in the impound yard and he needed to come get it and pay storage fees. It turned out that the guy he sold the car to never transferred the title and was running bogus tags. When he had the wreck, he just boogied and left the car.
This is also a very common practice among illegal aliens.
Took my son quite a while and a good bit of trouble to work it all out with the police.

 

[DWalt]

Illegals driving illegally has becoming a common problem.
A few years ago my son sold a car to a Latino guy. A couple of months later he got a letter from Memphis Police saying his car was in the impound yard and he needed to come get it and pay storage fees. It turned out that the guy he sold the car to never transferred the title and was running bogus tags. When he had the wreck, he just boogied and left the car.
This is also a very common practice among illegal aliens.
Took my son quite a while and a good bit of trouble to work it all out with the police.

At least in Texas, the requirement is that the car's seller has (I think) 48 hours to file a form with DMV reporting the sale (it can be done on the DMV website), so you are on record as no longer being the owner and are no longer responsible for mishaps. That supposedly prevents such situations. But I imagine few Texans follow the law.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

In Texas, especially around here. I deal with more and more vehicles with FAKE Texas temporary paper plates. Sometimes scotch taped over the "hard" plate.

A computer and scanner can work wonders. Unfortunately, I go for the VIN when I can EVEN if it has hard plates...and I've noticed more and more covered ones in preparation for that.

Reasons are many and none are legitimate. It poses a big problem for both security and police personnel.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

I was hit by a resident alien on the way to a job interview last year. Insured, but never paid and insurance company and driver have skipped the border. Worst part was explaining to potential employer. They rescheduled, but I think they had already picked someone by then.

 

[JcMack]

A friend of mine used to spend winters with his wife at some resort in Mexico. They were on their way home still south of the border after vacation and a Mexican ran a red light and T boned the Tahoe they were in. When my buddy woke up he was in a Mexican hospital handcuffed to the bed with a guard on the door.
A lawyer showed up and said he was behind him when the accident occurred. My friend was headed for jail as soon as he left the hospital. But for a few grand the lawyer had the false charges dropped, and he left the hospital and Mexico as fast as he and his wife could drive. In a beat up rental car. This was 12 years ago, I imagine Mexican legal fees have risen.
I gotta plan if one of them hits my truck.

 

[Rudi]

We need only look back to Rome.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Several states have taken steps to allow illegals to get driver licenses. I'm sure that will take care of such little problems.

 

[Maddog 521]

Defensive Driving is the key.

 

[Eddietruett]

If he doesn't have insurance that is valid, I'm sure you have uninsured motorist coverage. One word of caution. If you have to file a claim on your uninsured part, watch your insurance company. They may increase YOUR premiums. Not supposed to happen but mine tried to increase mine after being hit by a truck with no insurance. Almost came to having to file a lawsuit before they backed off

 

[soFlaNative]

That stinks out loud Graydon, I'm hoping the young man is OK.


Recent incident in Ft. Lauderdale shows how multiple entities managed to drop the ball in the death of a Canadian retiree by an unlicensed worker driving a high reach forklift on the streets. The city hired a contractor who hired two or three more for a project and this guy managed to escape the simplest of background checks.
I don't see an end to this problem anytime soon, like the above poster said defensive driving and God's good grace is the only hope.


Family of driver killed by forklift sues for $25 million - Orlando Sentinel

 

[Texas40]

At least in Texas, the requirement is that the car's seller has (I think) 48 hours to file a form with DMV reporting the sale (it can be done on the DMV website), so you are on record as no longer being the owner and are no longer responsible for mishaps. That supposedly prevents such situations. But I imagine few Texans follow the law.

NOT required.
It is available to the seller to do so but it is NOT law to do it.

I removed the plates and filed the document on last one I sold.

If u remove the plates and provide a bill of sale THEY sorta have to register it in THEIR name.



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[LVSteve]

Whenever I read about temporary plates and stuff I just shake my head. Back in England there's no such thing because the plates relate to the car, not the owner. A car cannot leave the dealer's lot without a valid plate, end of story.

As fs.or saying the guy shouldn't be here, he had a work permit, maybe some kind of H visa, so he was legal. Not having a driver's license is a problem not confined to immigrants. Ma in law #1 told me she had been driving around in Iowa for years without one and was shocked to discover she needed one when the family moved to CA in the 1950s.

 

[Golphin]

We deal with a lot of unlicensed illegals and of course uninsured illegals here in FLorida. South Florida is really bad but other areas are catching up pretty fast. One result is rising insurance rates caused by the damage done by the uninsured drivers being passed back to insured party even though they were not at fault.

 

[lkabug]

A couple of years ago while on I 95 in Virginia, I had an illegal hit my vehicle in the rear doing extensive damage. He Had driver's license and registration , with an address in Baltimore, and insurance with large national company. At least that's what all his paperwork said.
Address was a vacant lot, car turned out to be stolen, and insurance company had never heard of him. At least my insurance waived my deductible .

 

[Texas Star]

I won't go into detail, but my brother and I both had wrecks caused by aliens. One was Mexican and one was from an African country.

The brother has a lot of metal in his skeleton and had a very long, painful recovery. His van was totaled. The young, inexperienced cop who covered the accident didn't arrest the alien and when they looked for him, he had disappeared.

My brother still has pain and some limited movement as a result of his accident.

My accident was caused by two groups of aliens racing one another to work at a Mexican restaurant, running a red light. They hit me with one of their cars, left front fender, badly.

The other accident was caused by excess speed for icy roads and by following too closely.

In a third case, I was about a second from death when an Indian nurse ran a red light, going abut 60 MPH in a 45 MPH zone. Car was a big white Mercedes, and LEFT WHITE PAINT on the front of my Toyota's bumper! Thank God, I saw her running the light in my peripheral vision and stood on my brakes. She literally brushed her car along my bumper! Less than a second difference and she'd have T -boned me, probably fatally!

She had no insurance and tried to get me not to report the accident, as she'd had other accidents. Claimed she had drifted off to sleep after working a 12 hour shift. But she had a green card and was legal, as far as that part goes.