15-Year-Old Denied Permit For Crash He Had When He Was 6.

[Liberal_in_LA]

WHOA! Don't let your kids get tickets at age 6.

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15-Year-Old Denied Permit For Crash He Had When He Was 6
Teen Must Pay Fee, Get Special Insurance

POSTED: 5:29 pm MDT April 22, 2009
UPDATED: 11:34 am MDT April 23, 2009


DENVER -- Fifteen-year-old Jesse Jakan was so excited to get his driving permit on Friday.

He had passed the written exam and even taken a driving course. But the Department of Motor Vehicle denied him his permit.

"I didn't really understand what they were trying to tell me," said Jakan.

Jakan said the DMV asked him if he had ever driven before. He said "No." He said a supervisor then told him he had a driving record and needed to have his license/permit reinstated.

"At the time, I was furious," said Chris Jakan, Jesse’s dad. "I thought it was the most absurd thing I had ever heard."

When Jesse was 6 years old he was playing around in his mom's car and popped it out of gear. The car rolled down the driveway and crashed into another car.

"This is ridiculous. A 6-year-old should not be held accountable for his actions at that age," said Chris. "I am just wondering why a 6-year-old would have been ticketed for driving a car when he wasn't driving. He popped it out of gear by accident."

A spokesman for the DMV said state law prohibits them from discussing an individual driver's record.

"The issue raised in this case will be addressed and DMV will advise Mr. Jakans how to proceed," said Mark Couch of the DMV.

The statute cited in the case states "if an applicant for a license to operate a motor vehicle in this state prior to the issuance of a valid driver's or minor driver’s license or instruction permit or in violation of the terms of any instruction permit within 36 months prior to said application, the department has the authority to deny the issuance of said license for not more than 12 months."

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/19255001/detail.html

[Fleshdancer]

1. At age 6, his parents should have received the ticket, not him

What a weird situation.

[angstlessk]

2. isn't from age 6 to age 15 greater than 36 months? does DMV do math?

just askin? :shrug:

[damntexdem]

3. Uh, 36 months vs. 9 years.

And he had had no license or permit to reinstate. Aside from the idiocy, there is an apparent mismatch of the incident and the cited law.

[valerief]

4. Must be Republicans morans working at the DMV. nt

[jamesbolton]

5. It's all Republicans at the DMV

No one else can be that slow, lazy, and error prone. Besides you can just tell by looking at them that they're dumb enough to be a Republican.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Statute as cited above does not make any sense in English.

It is one huge run on sentence...
Can anyone translate that to something intelligible?