Pro Drivers/Flagrant Wreckless Driving-----------Insurance

[Qikbbstang]

This was on Yahoo:

NASCAR points leader Kyle Busch lost his driver's license for 45 days on Tuesday for driving 128 mph on a road close to a day-care center and church in a nearly $400,000 car. His lawyer said his client was not treated "like any other citizen."

Busch, who doesn't need a license to compete in NASCAR, also was fined $1,000, sentenced to 30 hours of community service and put on one year of unsupervised probation. He pleaded guilty to speeding and no contest to reckless and careless driving in North Carolina District Court in Iredell County.
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I met a Insurance Agent that claimed the company he's with writes a major portion of the life insurance policies on NASCAR racers and other pro-racers.  I was surprised anyone would write a policy on the lives of big-risk racers.  I recall him saying the Earnhardt death re-set the tables. If I recall their term life insurance policies cost something like $3.50/$100. I did not ask about incapacitated. One thing I know for certain is he said: "if a client gets a DWI on anything or gets popped for a flagrant driving stunt he'd never be able to get insurance. "
You got to love Busch's lawyer:
His lawyer said his client was not treated "like any other citizen."

No kidding if I got nailed doing that I'd expect to be burried under the court house.

[jayb]

I heard a rumor that there is a law on the books in some states where, if you are caught driving over 100 MPH, they will TAKE your car.  It belongs to the government if you do that.  Don't know if its true or not, but that seems a little extreme, although if I got caught doing over 100 on the public roads I'd expect some fairly serious punishment.  Seems like Kyle Bush got off relatively easily...

[thatdarncat]

There was an incident published in the Shelby American Auto Club magazine back in the eighties about a participant at the national convention which was being held in Detroit that year getting a speeding ticket for doing 150 MPH in a 45 mph zone with a very nice blown Boss 429. Photo of actual ticket was shown. It was told years later that the person, along with the usual fines, was required by the judge to sell the car. Considering what Boss 429's became worth years later that punishment became pretty severe!

[Hemi Joel]

Seizure of a legally owned vehicle for aledgedly committing a crime is unconstitutional in so many ways, and it is just wrong.  So If I drive 101 mph in a $200 beater, I loose $200. If Jay drives 101 mph in a $200,000 GT, he looses $200,000 for the exact same crime. That's not fair, and it violates the equal protection clause of the 14th ammendment. It also violates the 4th ammendment right against unreasonable seizures, and the 8th ammenment protection against unresonable fines.  I have also seen instances where seized vehicles are kept by the police department and used as "community service" vehicles. THis violates the 5th ammendment clause "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."  Further, these siezures usually happen without trial or conviction. Obviously, that violates the 5th ammendment "No person shall ...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"

Some of these law enforcement thugs think they are the KGB


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[66FAIRLANE]

Over here in OZ if you get convicted of 3 offences considered "hooning" they crush your car.