Front tag legal?

[billwot]

Originally Posted by Tbird232ci

There's a lot of butthurt in this thread.

In the real world, @extrashaky is 100% on point. Insurance companies jobs are to do anything they can to not pay a claim. If your passenger gets injured by your illegally mounted license plate, the reasoning and logic will not matter. You illegally mounted a license plate and that will be the reasons your insurance company will not pay for your passengers medical bills. If you are abiding by all traffic laws, you get hit and your only injury is a gash in your head from your illegally mounted license plate, you guessed it, the injuries will not be covered.

It works by the same logic as if you were sitting at a red light but with a suspended license. If you get rear ended by someone who was on their phone, you will be considered at fault because you weren't supposed to be on the road.

Not correct. Just because some illegality was a factor does not relieve the insurer of paying a claim. In fact many, if not most, auto accidents involve some illegality.

Let's say you illegally ran a red light, another vehicle crashed into you, and your passenger was injured. Your liability insurance is still required to compensate the victim.

...and your scenario about sitting at light with a suspended license. Yes, you might be judged "at fault", but that does not void your insurance-they still pay!

In most accident scenarios, at least one party is "at fault" but they aree still insured. Driving drunk is illegal, but if you injure someone while DWI, your still covered.

[MikeM7]

Originally Posted by gravitylover

You people with this no front plate thing need to get over yourselves.

In Colorado I had plates stolen a couple of times and got tickets, or at least pulled over, for no front every time. Twice it happened on Friday nights and there was a ticket on the windshield before I even got to drive the car. Another time was the day before I was leaving for vacation and it was the rear plate with the registration sticker so I put the front plate on. Big ticket for that one and a second for no front plate.

Here in NY they'll ticket you and tell you that you need to have one so the traffic cameras can accurately record your mistakes. A friend actually got two tickets mailed to him recently, one for running the red light and another because he had no front plate. Here they send you a series of pictures with the ticket and it showed no fron but a rear, $75.

So because someone I don't know in a state I've never been to got a ticket for a minuscule amount of money, I need to get over myself? Mkayyy

No.

[MikeM7]

Originally Posted by Poodles

It's no longer a fix-it ticket in Texas, it just recently had a fine attached to it. It's now a $200 ticket.

A "fix it" ticket always has a fine attached. Like when I got a ticket with a fine for my CBR reflectors and then got it dropped because I led them to believe I had fixed the issue.

Safety inspection, plates, registration, window tint, lights, reflectors... all come with fines, all will be dropped if you correct the issue before court. In 15 years of driving in both east coast and midwest, I've never seen it work any other way. My coworker actually just got busted riding dirty as can be.. like expired registration, safety inspection, idk what else but they got him with a lot. They told him the exact same thing, bring documentation that the issues have been corrected, all will be dropped.

[gravitylover]

Originally Posted by MikeM7

So because someone I don't know in a state I've never been to got a ticket for a minuscule amount of money, I need to get over myself? Mkayyy

No.

Sarcasmometer fail.

What I was getting at is the people that choose not to have a front plate where it's required by law because they don't like how it looks but then complain about the issues they create for themselves.