What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? PA
My daughter was threatened and cooerced by her father to tell the police officer that she was driving the vehicle when they were driving at night, hit black ice and rolled the jeep. Her father was the one driving and had some beer earlier. My daughter did not want to do it but she was scared of his temper and wanted so desperately to please her father. She had not spent any real time with him between the ages of 1 and four and after the year of five, he had abandoned any relationship or contact at all with her for ten years. When he came back into her life it was nothing but drama and sometimes violent behavior but she kept hoping for the perfect relationship she had always dreamed of. She was 18 at the time of the accident. Now a year later, she has confessed this story to me. She was involved in another car accident, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was not distracted by friends or coming from a party. She had a tailgater on her rear and the car in front of her stopped too suddenly. There was traffic and no where for her to go to prevent more disaster. Anyway she has to go for a departmental hearing and if asked the details of that particular accident, does not want to lie again. This time her father will not be there to take away the opportunity to tell the truth. She knows she still has to pay the consequences for the lie at the scene of the accident, she just wants to tell the truth- not to change the past- just to do the right thing the way she has been taught. By law what can the judge do to her? What are the penalties for telling a lie about who was driving? Will she be arrested for that lie? I appauld my daughter for intending to tell the truth, even though she knows it cannot erase what she did whether she was threatened or not....but I am a concerned mother.
My daughter was threatened and cooerced by her father to tell the police officer that she was driving the vehicle when they were driving at night, hit black ice and rolled the jeep. Her father was the one driving and had some beer earlier. My daughter did not want to do it but she was scared of his temper and wanted so desperately to please her father. She had not spent any real time with him between the ages of 1 and four and after the year of five, he had abandoned any relationship or contact at all with her for ten years. When he came back into her life it was nothing but drama and sometimes violent behavior but she kept hoping for the perfect relationship she had always dreamed of. She was 18 at the time of the accident. Now a year later, she has confessed this story to me. She was involved in another car accident, just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was not distracted by friends or coming from a party. She had a tailgater on her rear and the car in front of her stopped too suddenly. There was traffic and no where for her to go to prevent more disaster. Anyway she has to go for a departmental hearing and if asked the details of that particular accident, does not want to lie again. This time her father will not be there to take away the opportunity to tell the truth. She knows she still has to pay the consequences for the lie at the scene of the accident, she just wants to tell the truth- not to change the past- just to do the right thing the way she has been taught. By law what can the judge do to her? What are the penalties for telling a lie about who was driving? Will she be arrested for that lie? I appauld my daughter for intending to tell the truth, even though she knows it cannot erase what she did whether she was threatened or not....but I am a concerned mother.