The accident subsequently led to Ross Mirkarimi’s license being suspended.
It occurred last October and while the sheriff did exchange information with the other driver, Mirkarimi said that the other driver did not trust the city insurance and registration, which says vehicles are registered through 2099.
The sheriff then got in contact with his private insurance and assumed the matter was resolved, until last week apparently when being ticketed for an illegal turn in San Francisco.
However, his insurance company rejected the claim last December because he had not been driving his private car. At the same time, the DMV had sent the first of three letters notifying him of his pending license suspension for failing to file an incident report, with the third coming back undeliverable.
After updating his information with the DMV because of the ticket, the suspension was finally lifted last week.
Despite all this, the other driver involved in the October wreck apparently never received payment for damages as Mirkarimi’s private claim was denied and he never paid out of pocket.
Mirkarimi did take responsibility for the accident and believes the situation “was just some kind of administrative error.”
Error or not, Mirkarimi signed off on a May 2013 policy revision saying that “Every driver of a vehicle owned or operated by the (city) has an obligation to document every collision in an incident report.”
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