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An elderly man in New Brunswick, Canada was shocked to find out he was being fined almost $5,000 CAD for a crash that happened in 1960. The only time we’ve heard of anything like this has been when there was a fatal crash and the suspect ran. But this case doesn’t involve any fatalities, just the government pressuring an 85-year-old man to cough up cash for something he doesn’t recall happening.
Police say a classic car dealership website is just a big scam.
Supposedly, the accident happened back when the man was living in Toronto back in the day, reports CBC. Allegedly, the man didn’t have insurance at the time, so the other person involved in the collision was given a payout from Ontario’s Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Fund.
What’s even weirder is the man was a service technician while living in Toronto and legally had to carry car insurance. Plus, he says he legitimately doesn’t remember being involved in a crash.
Now he’s having to pay $200 a month on a fixed income, saying he’ll have to sacrifice something to keep making those payments.
His family is looking at possibly hiring an attorney to fight the charges. We wonder if the attorney would cost more than $5,000. This is in part how government agencies can get away with slapping people with random fines since fighting it might cost more, plus generates plenty of trouble in a person’s life.
One huge question that needs to be answered, but hasn’t, is how 65 years passed without the Ontario government doing something about this fine. Why go after the guy now? What has honestly changed?
And do they have accurate records of the supposed crash? How do they know they didn’t confuse this 85-year-old man with someone else? It all seems odd, to say the least, but for now the guy is stuck with a monthly bill from something he says he didn’t do.
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