What about calling a friend or family member if possible for them to arrive on your cell and having them show up to turn your vehicle over to them? Assuming no passenger in the car.
You would of course call them right away when stopped, or when the cop returns to run your license.
No need to inventory the vehicle if it is turned over to someone right?
I’ve driven off in a friend’s car during a traffic stop.
Mind you, he was pulled over into a restaurant parking lot, his dad and I happened to be in the restaurant, and the car was in his dad’s name, and the cops had no intention of searching it so they did not care…
The real question is why are you asking this?
If you are arrested, in your car and you don’t want to pay whatever impound costs etc - can you request / tell the police that someone is coming to collect the car?
Is the car automatically impounded if it can be legally parked and locked?
Need answer fast?
Ummmm, what are these “traffic violations” that are resulting in you dragged away, never to see your car again?
I mean, I’ve gotten plenty of tickets, but I’ve always driven home from the experience.
Just looking up “Moving and non-moving violations” in NY and CA, I see dozens of them that’d result in hefty fines and points on your license, but with almost all of them you’d still have your car.
Are you saying you’re planning to drive drunk/stoned/licenseless, or considering committing a hit-and-run? If so, the best advice we can give you is: skip that 1% of violations and keep your car.
Thanks for the clarification. I wasn’t quite sure what he was asking. When he said inventory, I was thinking about a search of the car contents not taking it away to a impound yard
The Sandra Bland incident brought to the forefront the issue that in Texas and other states you can be arrested for traffic violations, so if a cop wants to search your car and you refuse in these states he can arrest you for the violation you were pulled over for(or fabricate one) and then the car has to be inventoried.
I’m wondering how that can be defeated, such as having a friend/family member nearby come drive the car off before you are removed from the scene. Which also avoids the impound fee.
As mentioned, in Texas you can be arrested for traffic violations,
But I would think the same question would also legitimately apply if (for example) you have warrants for non payment of fines, for other crimes not relevant to driving, or as you mentioned - if you are arrested for drink driving*
I live in Texas and the only times I have been pulled over by police is when I am doing something really stupid or dangerous.
With a minor traffic violation that is not going to happen unless you are doing something really stupid or are being really rude to the police. Almost all police officers are very respectful and any that are not are soon no longer police officers
I just read about Sandra Bland. The toxicology report said that she had high amount of Marijuana in her body. There is probably a lot more to this story that has been reported so far
Legal questions are best handled in IMHO.
Colibri
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Given that there are other active threads on this, it would be best to stick to the questions in the OP to avoid a hijack.
Will do
Grude,
if I was your buddy and you called me up to go rescue your car from being impounded and the reason why it is being impounded is because you are being arrested for being drunk, some reckless or careless act, or something similar, I would say
“Once you get out of jail or released from being arrested, I will then pick you up and take you to the impound yard to get your vehicle”
I suspect it boils down to “why are you being removed”?
If you are a felon and there is a gun on the seat beside you (how can people be THAT stupid? (Rhetorical)), you are going tot be arrested and they are going to want to see what other stuff you were dumb enough to be caught with.
Drunk and/or giving the cop grief, they probably will not care about the car.
Which of course - I think, brings you back to full circle for what seems to be the purpose of the OP.
Assuming you’re caught with a gun you’re not allowed on the seat beside you, so you KNOW you’re going to prison, but you also have 5 kilos of high grade ganja in the boot.
Yes willingness on the part of the other party is assumed for the question, I’ more trying to get to the heart of whether the officer will go “curses, foiled!” or what.
If the gun is in plain site the cop would not need consent to search, or to do a work around loophole to search. But only if plain site for the gun.
If there are warrants out for someone, they’re DUI, or they’re driving under a suspended license, I can see LEO wanting to haul someone off leaving their car parked somewhere. Depending on the friend, I might be wary of driving his car home for him. Look, what if I get stopped on the way back for that broken tail-light that originally got him pulled over? Am I going to have to explain to the cop that I’m just driving the car home for a friend and that ounce of dope, those vials of white powder or clearish crystalline matter, and those firearms under the seat aren’t mine?