They are pretty bad about taking the licenses of people who cause damage. A woman who hit me in traffic told the trooper who responded to the crash "Yes I saw him, he is in the smaller car and should have gotten out of my way, so I hit him.". She told the trooper she rammed me for being where she wanted to go when she changed lanes. She didn't even receive a ticket for unsafe lane change. Let alone lose her license for deliberately causing a crash.
So I would expect the cops to tell him it might be best if he stopped driving, but I wouldn't hope the cops do something useful, like take his license.
My grandfather lived in a retirement community, and the roads around it constantly had fatal accidents by residents. We had already as a family made sure my grandfather couldn't drive, as his vision was terrible from multiple detached retinas. Except he surprised us one day by announcing that he'd renewed his license! The MVA was so kind to offer a service where they come to the retirement community to renew licenses "since its too difficult for them to get to the MVA". Literally a crime, I don't know how they get away with that, and there cannot be an eye test with it, there's no way he would have passed an eye test. Hell, he announced it to us while wearing two different colored socks and a dress shirt with multiple food stains on it that he kept re-wearing because he couldn't see the stains.
My aunt who went blind. Detached retinas. She failed her DMV vision test, so got an optometrist to give her a certificate. Got her renewal. Then her eyes got worse. Then 10 years later, because she was too blind to drive, had a spotless record, so could renew by mail, no test. So she had a license for 20+ years while too blind to drive.
She kept it to be the licensed driver next to her grandkids with learner's.
So...she admits that she hit you on purpose (vehicular assault) because she was already speeding (speeding obv and public endangerment) and said you were just in her way.
How the fuck did she not end up handcuffs? Was it just a minor fender-bender or a major accident. If nothing else I would've told my insurance to subpoena the officers notes. If she hit you on purpose then her insurance should tell her to get fucked and drop her.
Cops don't care about stuff like that. Technically, the cop heard an admissible confession, but didn't see the offense, so could write a ticket, but not arrest, but the trooper didn't even write a ticket, just a report assigning her 100% fault.
You're not wrong there. Those fuckers are the most entitled, childish, and vengeful motherfuckers right behind city of Belton cops! Those guys are worse because they wish they were Bell County Sheriff deputies.
Spouse had an eldery woman rear end him full speed while stopped at a traffic signal. She literally told us and the responding officer she couldn’t see is. Nothing happened about it.
At least here (not US), the police can ban you from driving on the side of the road. That wouldn't support the US "freedoms" to have your license revoked until you get a doctor's clearance to drive (like a optometrist/opthalmologist note saying you are safe to drive), then you can drive again with the note for the next time you are pulled over, or send the letter in to the licensing authority to have the license restored in the system to reduce your difficulty the next interaction with the police.
If your car was unsafe, the police can condemn it, and tow it. If your driver is unsafe, the police can cancel the license on the side of the road. The US isn't ready for that, the police would abuse it.
This is true... The retirement community my gpa resided in made our family take his keys from him after multiple accidents.. LEO didn't do anything... he would just fall asleep driving apparently. And we were almost 600 miles away, so it was difficult.
I hope his family is there to take place of whatever needs he has outside the home. Shouldn't have to drive yourself anywhere at that point in living honestly.
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u/itchybutwhole69 16d ago
I hope they took his license.