I would like to know what the penalties would be for driving a car that is not registered to me, or charge me with driving without car insurance in Louisville, Kentucky and failure to show proof of insurance? The vehicle was not mine. Can someone explain the Kentucky auto insurance requirements related to this issue?

Paul

Louisville, Kentucky

The penalties for driving a car without auto insurance in Louisville, Kentucky can be rather harsh. For the first violation you are cited to go to court and can be fined between $500 up to $1000 or a jail time for not more than ninety days or both.

Your Kentucky motor vehicle registration and license plates can be suspended for a year or until proof of automobile insurance is provided as well for the registered car owner of an uninsured car. License suspension for up to one year is also a possible penalty. The penalties for each subsequent offense of not having proper proof of car insurance, increase.

While you are not the owner of the vehicle in which you were operating, The Kentucky laws still hold you liable as a driver to make sure the vehicle you are driving is insured and be sure that there is proof of that insurance to show to police officer upon request.

If you want to know more about the specifics on the laws of Kentucky then you can contact legal attorney. An attorney may be able to advise you if there is any way to have your tickets transferred to the vehicle owner if you had asked about car insurance and were assured the automobile was insured and therefore were unaware that you were driving without auto insurance.

A: How an SR22 insurance form is filed will always depend on the car insurance company, of course, so you will have to ask your company if you are trying to get it filed a certain way. Normally, though, there are two ways and three different forms.

The three types of SR22 insurance form are as follows

• Owner SR22 insurance form, which is for someone who owns a car but does not drive it.
• Operator SR22 insurance form, which is for someone who drives but does not own a car.
• Owner-operator SR22 insurance form, which is for someone who owns a car and drives it as well.

If you choose a company to file your SR22 insurance form, one of the above will be filed. In some cases this is done via mail and sent to the Department of motor vehicles, and this can take as much as a month to process. In other cases, your form can be filed electronically, which usually takes between 24 and 48 hours.