Hope the uninsured-motorist protection clause of your own insurance is iron-clad.
An underlying problem here isn't very far distant from the "gun violence" debate: Texas has a law that all drivers carry at least the state-mandated minimum liability insurance. Yet law-abiding citizens end up suffering--physically and financially--due to those who ignore the law. And rather than adding resources to enable our LEOs to enforce the laws already on the books, the solution from liberal politicians is to bark and whine for yet more laws.
Your body and your pocketbook will feel this one. Your insurance company won't have any money trails worth chasing, and your premiums will go up because an uninsured, illegal driver was at fault. Wonder what will happen to that uninsured, illegal driver. My bet is...not much.
Data is two years old, but Dallas County takes the prize for the percentage of uninsured motorists on the streets in Texas. One in six--over 16%--of drivers in Dallas County have no auto insurance despite state law.
Across Texas, the cumulative total ain't much better: 14% of drivers have no insurance. That's over 2.5 million drivers on the road disobeying the law and, very likely, not caring and never intending to pay a dime to anyone they hit or kill.
Yet we are the deplorables. We are the irredeemables.
I wonder how many of those 2.5 million illegal drivers positively love Hillary Clinton?The Dallas Morning News wrote:Dallas lawyer Jim Mills, who handles clients hit by uninsured drivers, said he hasn’t see much relief in the number of such cases. That’s despite repeated attempts to get them off the road.
If someone without insurance hits his client, Mills checks whether others might be liable. If not, and there’s no uninsured-motorist protection, the client may be out of luck.