Your editorial “Selling cars to drunk drivers” offered a lame solution to the habitual DUI drivers and that was the summary line: “You can’t drive drunk when you’re sitting in a prison cell.” This implies a life sentence for what, two or three DUI convictions? The habitual DUI driver will eventually get out of jail and then Secretary of State Jesse White’s offices will issue plates for whatever car that DUI driver buys.
Perhaps White could do his job and refuse plates to that driver. The police ought to notice a car without plates very quickly. Many other states have personnel that immediately track down cars and remove the plates when people cancel their insurance or lose their licenses.
My car was hit by a corporate truck. The driver gave the police officer false insurance information. The corporation that owned the truck is still in business and operating trucks. The driver is probably still driving. I’m out my $500 deductible because the other driver/corporation did not have insurance.
Habitual DUI drivers usually have problems that are not going to be cured in jail.
