If it's an issue of someone else driving the car, the owner will be alerted to the situation and made responsible.
Ron writes:
Who cares who is driving. If its your car and someone else drives the red light, you should hold them responsible. If not then shame on you for borrowing your car to an irresponsible and careless driver.
The punishment is way too unequal. I know for parking tickets it's simply a matter of paying the fine. And if you recover the cost from the actual violator, OK. There are no other repercussions (unless of course you don't pay them). For moving violations it can indeed be just a fine. But then there is insurance cost rising. Again that is recoverable from the real violator. But for a significant number of people, jobs are involved. It is possible to lose your job if you have tickets, or if you lose your license because of the tickets, and that doesn't compare to just making someone pay who actually did the offense. That, and the inequality involved make it hard for me to say OK to the owner being responsible.
Pat Byrne across the river.
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