Recently while driving southbound on I-5, approaching the exit to Highway 526, I was involved in a four-vehicle “chain reaction” accident. A woman who was driving an SUV hadn’t noticed that traffic had come to a stop as it often does on the stretch of I-5. She slammed into the truck behind me, which pushed my truck into the vehicle in front of me.
The woman who initiated this accident had no valid driver’s license or insurance. the man she slammed into had to be taken to the hospital with a gash on his head. His truck is most likely totaled. I am waiting to hear if my insurance company is going to consider my truck fixable or totaled as well.
The State Patrol trooper at the scene told me this was his third accident that day involving drivers without licenses or insurance. Fortunately, for me, I have full insurance coverage, but I still have a deductible to pay as well as 20 percent of the rental vehicle that I’m going to need for the next two weeks.
My question is why is this issue of so many drivers without valid driver’s licenses or insurance not being addressed? They skirt the law and end up behind the wheel time and time again, putting the majority of your law-abiding readers at serious risk.
Alan Nilson
Arlington
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