Thursday, December 02, 2021
California Woman Ticketed For Truck Donated Six Years Ago
ELK GROVE (KOVR) — We’ve reported before on agencies using old Department of Motor Vehicle records and ticketing the wrong person. One was issued in Salinas, a place Emily Blake-Kessel said she’s never been, six years after she donated the truck involved.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I sold a car to a fellow that failed to change the title to his name. Six years later I got a call from the city that it had been towed, was broken down, from the side of a roadway. I faxxed (yes, it was years ago) the bill of sale and the fellow's personal info to the city tow and DMV and didn't hear from them again. For another six years. Same issue, towed car, rinse, repeat. They said I was responsible for sending them info on the owner's current where-abouts. I told them to crush the car for junk. End of story.
ReplyDeleteDitto. Gave Subaru to son stationed in California. Two years later he donated Subaru to charity, transferred to east coast. One year later we get ticket in mail from Sacramento. Thanks to dedicated DMV worker in Oregon, we finally got off the hook.
ReplyDeleteSame thing happened to us. We gave a Ford Taurus to a lady who said she had cancer and no way to get to the doctor.
ReplyDeleteThree years later and we're being hit up for storage fees from a tow company and the DMV. We had to go to court over it, but thankfully we had a paper trail. All it cost me was a day's wages and gas for the two hour round trip.
I cannot wait for the reckoning.....
ReplyDeleteI was once sent a parking ticket from South Lake Tahoe. They got my mailing address from the license plate, which they got right. But when I called and told them my vehicle wasn't a Jeep, it was a Kenworth log truck, and that said Kenworth had never been in South Lake Tahoe they said "Okay, we'll take care of it". I never heard another word.
ReplyDeleteSometimes the system works.
Years ago living in WA State, there was a tear off portion of the title to send to Olympia when you sold the vehicle. People seldom bothered. A shithead friend of my sons stepfather bought a pickup from us. I mailed that portion the same day. Six days later the shithead parked the pickup in our driveway after using it to commit a crime. Lots of ensuing drama but all ended when a records check with the state turned up the sales report.
ReplyDeleteNot quite the same, but ... I got a ticket for a vehicle I had reported stolen just weeks earlier in the same little town. I only found out after the unpaid ticket had been bumped up in cost because it hadn't been paid. Went to the police department and the lieutenant said I'd have to write a letter to the city attorney to have it dropped. Are you nuts? I said your department fucked this up, you can fix it or I'll see you in court. They did finally fix it.
ReplyDeleteA friend sold a car to a guy from out of town. He kept a copy of the "Release of Liability" form the Californistan DMV has attached to the title. A month later two detectives show up from the next county over and want to speak to him. Seems his former car was the get away car in a liquor store robbery. They took a copy and said thank you very much.
ReplyDeleteI once got a letter from an insurance agency (State Farm, if memory serves) saying that I had destroyed their client's vehicle in a hit and run and, if I did not make recompense, then they were going to have me criminally charged.
ReplyDeleteTheir evidence? The license plate number as relayed by the "victim". No video. No independent witnesses.
I calmly stated that I was out of state that week, my car was at the airport parking lot, and I never observed any damage to my vehicle. I ended up having to drive to one of their claim adjustment centers, where the rep said that there was absolutely no evidence of damage to my vehicle at all.
I later got a letter stating that the agent that took the report had transposed the numbers of the plate. No apology, just a statement of fact. I got t-boned, to the tune of $7,000 damages, by another one of their clients years later and I had to threaten to sue the bastards before they would relent, and by the way I was experience terrible head aches and neck pain. I would not buy state farm insurance if it was the only option available.
About 30 years ago I got T-boned and my truck totaled by an old couple that ran a 4-way stop and State Farm's idea of a fair settlement was low book on my truck, about 1200 bucks as I recall. I had a 6 month old transmission and an engine with less than a thousand miles on it, as well as a complete braking system replacement from the power booster unit back.
DeleteI only had liability insurance at the time so I fought with them for a couple weeks before I finally took all my receipts down to the local office along with a letter from an attorney saying he'd represent me in court if needed. Turns out the head of that office was my mother's cousin. They cut a check for $7500 that day.
I learned my lesson and have carried full coverage on my vehicles since - I'll let my insurance company do the fighting for me now.
I have the same attitude about the insurance. But, my wife wanted to save a few bucks and made the call on the insurance. This incident changed her mind. I had a bunch of cell phone photos on this one and used a Google satellite image to detail the crash scene. The shop did a great job. I could not see the difference in the damaged area.
Delete