If you don't have insurance then you don't have a valid driver's license because insurance is a requirement for having a license. Driving at all without a license and insurance should be all the "intention" to have an outcome like this needed for a criminal prosecution. The kid is screwed because this deadbeat is never going to come close to paying restitution for the damage he has done.

You don't have to have insurance to have a valid license, wtf are you talking about?

Well, that's just wrong econoline. Insurance follows a car, not a person and is not a requirement for having a license. It is a requirement for legally operating a vehicle on public roads.

Econoline is a fucking moron.

"If you don't have insurance then you don't have a valid driver's license because insurance is a requirement for having a license."

Yeah, that's total bullshit.

What a bunch of BS. The DA should be dismissed. There are plenty of statutes that would still apply, including seriously injuring a vulnerable road user while driving carelessly (ORS 811.135).

Perhaps they have changed it but it used to be that if you didn't have insurance in your name (or fleet insurance) that you were supposed to turn your license in and exchange it for an id card. Still he was knowingly driving without insurance which should be treated just like murder laws where if you commit a burglary and someone dies as a result even if you didn't mean for them to die it is still on you. Losing a leg is bad enough but the financial implications will cripple him more than the physical injury in the long run.

Total horseshit. I hope 42-year-old Barry Scott Allen sees a severed leg every time he goes to sleep.

TAINTED MEAT!!!!

Spaceman- What makes you think he wont? Wouldn't you?

Absolutely, but empathy appears to be in such short supply that I can't assume anything anymore.

Oh hang on, another school shooting.