Can your license be suspended if you loaned your car to someone who had a suspended license and they got into an accident?
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Can your license be suspended if you loaned your car to someone who had a suspended license and they got into an accident?
My cousin let her father drive her vehicle to the store. On the way to the store he got into a accident. Well after the accident he tells her that he didn’t have a valid drivers license. Well she recently got a letter in the mail from the state saying they were going to take her to court over it, and they were trying to get her license revoked. Can they really do that?
Asked on August 4, 2011 Florida
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Answered 12 years ago | Contributor
In all states in this country one must have a current driver's license to drive a vehicle on a public roadway. In your situation, your cousin allowed her father to drive a vehicle that she apparently owned. Her father supposedly had a suspended driver's license and this was found out after he got in an accident.
The State of Florida most likely cannot take your cousin's driver's license away because of her father driving a vehicle when he had a suspended driver's license. I suspect that the problem that your cousin got herself into is due to the fact that the vehicle she was driving may not have had insurance.
If this is the case, then your cousin may possibly end up having her driver's license suspended as a result.
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