I did this on 360 so know I ask you Do you think if you get a DWI you should surrender your plates?

Question

I have lived in Indiana most of my life and I know people who drink and drive and even get busted but yet they still do it. I know live in Illinois and you get caught DWI you get your license suspended and you surrender your plates which is good this stops them from driving. Well I personally believe in this 100% Just because I'm a victim of a drunk driver and barely made it. I had friends who died because of a drunk driver but yet they don't have a license but they still drive and If you surrender there plates it will stop them from driving unless some idiot gives them there keys to there vehicle. To me and THE BMV DRIVING IS A PRIVELDGE NOT AN HONOR! Answer honestly and kindly no need to be hateful in your answers it's a question. I have discovered a lot of states are doing this and If it makes children and others safer I am all for it.!!!!!

Answer 1

I think you should follow the law for whatever state you are in. If the residents of a particular state don't think the punishment for DWI is high enough, then the citizens of the state should ask their representatives for stronger laws on the subject.

Answer 2

OK, I'm confused here:

I've lived in Illinois all my life. There is only DUI not DWI. DUI is Driving Under the Influence, while DWI is Driving While Intoxicated. DUI is broader and can cover Marijuana, while DWI is considered a much more severe offense. Many other states make this distiction, but Illinois only uses DUI with varing degrees.

Also, you are not required to surrender your plates upon DUI arrest. The car will be impounded if no one sober is present to drive it home. You're driving privledges are suspened 3 months is you comply with roadside sobriety test and 6 months if you refuse. Nothing about surrendering your vehicle registration.

I had a DUI 6 years ago and didn't have to do that. I had a buddy just recently get one 2 months ago, and while his car was totaled, he was still able to buy another car 2 weeks later.

It may be in legislation for the future, but its not on the lawbooks now.

Anyway, back to the question. I don't see the point, other than creating more hassle to discourge drunk driving in the future...of which there is plenty already. I had to go through the minimal about of evaluations, classes, visits with a Probation Officer, and court hearings to convince me never to do it again. If you get DUI #2+ you risk jail time, revokation, and interlock devices (car won't start without you blowing in a tube to measure BAC ). Taking plates away from one car won't stop someone from taking another car from someone else. Its pointless.

The real problem isn't make the punisment more severe to prevent subsequent DUI's. Its improving the education and awareness to prevent DUI #1 and drunk driving altogether!

Answer 3

Every day here in Houston, I see a car or two on the road with no visible plates.

I don't think turning in plates is going to stop people from driving drunk. They just have their wives/girlfriends/relatives register the car for them. Not having a license doesn't stop people from driving drunk, either, in my experience. They still drive, with no license.

Jail time, keeps them from driving drunk while they're in jail. It's the only thing I know of that really works.

Confiscating cars *might* work, but I don't think that's particularly American.

Answer 4

hello! DWI DUI is the same thing and I know for a fact that you have to turn in your plates to the secretary of stae if you are convicted. My boyfriend had to so dude you are wrong you need to read the Illinois handbook about it. You maybe a convicted DUI person and you need no license people like you are what hurt inoccent people like me i was lucky to walk away with every vertabrae broke but one in my neck broken left arm in 7 different places and 150 staples in my head and 150 stitches across my forehead because of a drunk driver and wake up in the hospital with a cast on a neck brace and a doctor sewing you up and the fact of not knowing why you are in the hospital that is totally scarry.

Answer 5

Most States make it "financially " difficult to drive after a DUI. Ohio has special plates you put on your car after a second conviction. (Yellow plates) Taking the plates will not stop a drunk from driving. I agree that somthing needs to be done to prevent a person from getting multiple convictions. I wasn't impressed with the 3 days in jail sentence when I found that it was from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning. If a person starts having to miss work to pay for his/her driving habits, it may change their prospective.

Answer 6

Yes that would be a good law to put into effect