no insurance, but had just sold vehicle

I was pulled over for failing to stop at a red light before making a right hand turn. I had just sold the car that day and it was no longer under my insurance. I had just picked up the new owner and was driving back to my home (I have a 3 month old and am too nervous to let anyone else drive when he is in the car). I got the ticket for not stopping at the red light and also one for not having insurance. Being as I had just sold the car it was not yet registered in the new owner's name, I attempted to explain this to the officer but she was rude and refused to listen. I live in Alabama and in my state you have 30 days after buying a car to get it insured and 10 days to register it in your name. My court date is a week away, what can I do to fight this. The officer also wrote down on one ticket that I have blonde hair and on the other that I have brown. My hair is obviously brown and it shows and states that on my drivers license. Help, is there anything I can do?

YOU were driving without insurance......

YOU were driving your car and had no bill of sale for it. The new owner did not get insurance or add the car to HIS insurance... BEFORE he bought the car...yet you still drove it.


If the new owner had called his agent and added the car to his insurance then you would be driving with the permission of the new owner under his policy and the ticket would be dismissed.

It sounds like neither one of you had insurance so you took the risk and lost. ya shouldda let him drive and get caught!!!duh!

I did have a bill of sale in the car, yet the police officer was not interested in looking at it nor listening to anything I tried to say. I was driving the car due to the fact I had my newborn in the vehicle and I am just too nervous to let anyone else drive with him in the car.

Oh well..... if you didn't get pregnant you would have had plenty of money for insurance...

Why didn't he father cough up some money and pay for it? Sounds like he is at fault as well.

Well do you have another car? It better have insurance, that maybe the only way out of this.

Show the judge the other car had insurance and you had to sell this one cause of the baby.

I dont know what else to say.....

I guess you know that there is NO EXCUSES anymore**************YOU MUST have Insurance on a car, and Renters Insurance, since the landlord is only responsible for damage to your property when he causes it. And YOU are FULLY responsible for ALL the damage you do to the landlord's property..like a fire or flooding the house when the toilet overflows.

[JETX]

NicoleJ:
Just curious... do you really expect ANYONE (much less the citing police officer) to believe that you cancelled your insurance on the very day that you sold it.. on the very day that you were stopped??

One thing that makes this whole thing suspect is that your written proof of insurance should show an expiration date that would more than likely be different then the date you were ticketed....

However, in any case, you admit that you did not have insurance and are offering a lot of excuses, but they do not justify your driving without insurance.

In my state, it does not matter who the owner of the vehicle is. The driver is responsible for the vehicle having insurance. If a driver is stopped and they can not show proof of insurance they will receive a ticket. If the registered owner wants to take responsibility for the ticket, he/she may. As for the hair thing, won't work.

[JOHN BUCKNER]

I would agree with most of the others that have written you on this matter.

you get behind the wheel a a motor vehicle and by law you must have insurance. Its that simple. It does not matter who owns or who the vehicle is registered to, the driver is responsible to make sure he or she has insurance.

You should be thankful you were not involved in a car accident. even if the car was not in your name, you can bet you would have been sued too.