Hutchinson News Online
Garden City insurance checkpoints yield results
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...The check netted 32 citations for a first offense of "no proof of insurance," as well as citations for second and third offenses, a DUI and two drivers without a license.
The department started running the check lanes in 2005, in response to a growing problem of traffic incidents involving uninsured drivers, said Garden City Police Capt. Mike Utz. They now conduct them two or three times a year, he said.
In 2005, nearly 700 drivers were issued citations for having no proof of insurance, according to figures from the Garden City Municipal Court. Of those, 177 were eventually convicted....
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Dodge City ... said they don't run insurance check points. |
Time that changed, new city commissioners, don't you think?