Tundra Hits Unlicensed Driver Running Stop Sign at Southland and College Hills

 

A late model white Toyota Tundra was sent to the wrecking yard when it hit an unlicensed driver of a yellow Chevrolet Cobalt who ran a stop sign. The crash happened at the intersection of South College Hills Blvd. and Southland Blvd. at approximately 4:15 p.m.

Brian Bylsma, a motorcycle patrol officer with the San Angelo Police Department Traffic Division was the investigator. He said that the Tundra was southbound on College Hills in the inside lane and the yellow Cobalt was eastbound on Southland and disregarded the stop sign. “He says he never saw it,” Bylsma said. When the Cobalt entered the intersection, the Tundra hit it. “There were minor injuries in the accident, the people in the Cobalt. But they refused an ambulance,” Bylsma said.

The driver of the Cobalt was cited for no driver’s license and failure to yield the right-of-way at the stop sign.

The intersection was shut down because the Tundra and the Cobalt were blocking the north and south lanes on College Hills.

The Cobalt was also loaded up on a wrecker flatbed and sent to the wrecking yard.

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Got to San Angelo In July of 1963 - learned early on that unlicensed and uninsured drivers were a very common blight upon the town. Except for lip service, this has never appreciably changed. No need to make recommendations - those in power would never listen anyway.
Why don't they have a license? Are they under the legal driving age? Was it suspended? Have they ever had one? Or is this just PC newspeak for an individual that is "just here to do the jobs Americans won't do" and someone decided that wasn't relevant?
Texas law is already very tough on uninsured motorists, at least the ones that get caught. An insurance card is no longer enough to fool the police. They can look up the driver in their system and see they do not have current insurance.
One of the punishments for driving without a valid license or without proper insurance should be immediate confiscation of the vehicle with the scofflaw paying daily storage fees until he/she provides proper documentation of a valid license and insurance in order to retrieve the vehicle. After a set period of time, perhaps 30 days, that the vehicle is not removed from storage by the driver then the vehicle will be sold at public auction with back storage fees paid out of the sale. Net proceeds of the auction would go to road surface repair and improvement.

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