DMV crackdown on auto insurance

Re “State starts crackdown on uninsured drivers,” Dec. 6

In this article, Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, said, “It’s not fair when people are spending money on auto insurance and other people are driving without it.”

What about earthquake insurance? The long-overdue “big one” will create enormous financial losses. Yet Californians are not required to have earthquake insurance. Why? Because everyone knows who will be asked to pay for these losses not if but when this next disaster occurs: everyone else in the United States.

Furthermore, local governments have been negligently permitting development of disaster-prone areas for decades. There is no shortage of hypocrisy in California government.

WINFIELD J. ABBE

Athens, Ga.

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Very strange. For years, the Department of Motor Vehicles required proof of insurance for renewing auto registration. Then it stopped the practice and registered vehicles willy-nilly. Now there is a “crackdown” on uninsured drivers? I think there should be a crackdown on the DMV for registering vehicles without proof of insurance in the first place.

GEORGE J. JANCZYN

San Diego

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As a truck driver who spends numerous hours driving the freeways of the Los Angeles Basin, I’m a little skeptical. The next time you are stuck in traffic, look at the license plates on the cars around you for expired registrations. Count how many vehicles haven’t bothered to go through the charade of buying insurance and then canceling the policy. Then when the trucks are blowing by you at 75 mph and the cars are weaving in and out of traffic at 90 mph, count how many California Highway Patrol vehicles you see involved in traffic enforcement duties. When you answer these questions, you will know just how effective this “crackdown” will be.

DAVID HAWKINS

Anaheim Hills