If THEY got the ticket they are the one charged with the offense. HOWEVER, depending upon the circumstance of their drivng your vehicle, you MIGHT be liable for separate charges (i.e.- permitting an un-licensed driver - etc.). The owner can be deemed responsible for who they allow to operate their vehicle. If your vehicle was damaged (or not) your insurance company will want to know since they will become liable for paying for the damages to your, and the other, vehicle. This will probably affect your insurance rates.
The only way that can be a bad thing is if the car is stolen. You would have had to report it stolen prior to the ticket or accident.
While more facts may need to be known...the ticket is for your driving actions before and leading up to the accident. Not exactly for the accident. Even if someone did in fact hit you, those reckless actions may have caused the accident in any number of ways. (Or perhaps you should consider - if you weren't doing what you were, would the events have happened and would you - a fully skilled and otherwise unpreoccupied driver have been able to avoid them?) And if you still feel your actions had no influence on what happened - then the fact someone hit you in an accident (these things happen - even when driving legally and cautiously) makes no difference to your ticket really. Maybe they should get one too, but you were then just lucky your reckless acts didn't cause an accident, and you only got caught doing the wrong thing.
The accident will show but it will be marked as a not at fault accident and should not increase your insurance rates.
If a person is issued a ticket for an accident in Minnesota, it will stay on his or her driving record for five years. However, if the accident was alcohol related, depending on the charge, it can stay longer.
The driver will get the ticket.
This is easy to answer. The person who was driving gets the ticket because that person is the one who broke the law.
This is different in different states, but your driving privileges could be revoked for too many tickets, multiple wrecks, driving while drunk, driving while texting, driving without insurance, committing a felony while driving, leaving the scene of an accident, running from police, failure to appear in court to answer for a ticket
While your insurance company only cares who pays the insurance policy, the DMV doesn't care who owns the car. The driver who causes the accident will have it show up on his/her driving record (if there was a ticket issued).
Maybe not, the accident will be 'chargeable' and the ticket also will be on your record. Contact your agent or company's policy services dept for the answer.
you will get a ticket and probably get your license suspended for longer and insurance will probably not cover the accident b/c you were driving with a suspended license but of course this is just one scenario
No. Someone reporting improper driving is not grounds for a police officer to issue a citation without evidence to support the charge. Now slow down- OK?
In Mass. can you get a ticket for driving someone else's car with an expired inspection sticker?