Does lending a driver's license to a friend for point deduction affect the license owner?
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Lending a driver's license to someone else for point deduction does affect the license owner. Impacts of lending a driver's license for point deduction: The other party's violation records will appear in the file, severely affecting future car insurance, vehicle inspections, and approvals from the vehicle management department, causing inconvenience. If the other party commits violations such as hit-and-run, the person who sold the points may bear corresponding legal liabilities. If a driver's license has not accumulated 12 points within 6 valid periods, it can be renewed for a 10-year license. However, if all 12 points are sold, it will affect the license renewal. Summary of traffic violations resulting in 12-point deductions: Reversing, driving against traffic, or making U-turns across the central divider on highways; speeding more than 50% above the limit; fleeing the scene of an accident without constituting a crime; failing to display, forging, or altering license plates, vehicle registration certificates, or driver's licenses, or using counterfeit versions of these; improperly installing license plates or intentionally obscuring or damaging them; drunk driving; driving a vehicle that does not match the permitted vehicle type; driving a passenger vehicle with more than 20% over the allowed passenger capacity.
I previously lent my points to a close friend to help deal with a speeding violation on the highway. However, the traffic police compared the surveillance footage and found that the driver clearly didn’t match the photo on the license. Not only did it fail to clear his points, but it also got my license suspended for six months and fined me 2,000 yuan. Later, I learned that facial recognition technology is now extremely accurate, and lending points can hardly escape the electronic surveillance. Moreover, if done multiple times, you could be blacklisted by the traffic management system, making you ineligible for point reduction through traffic law courses for three years. The most frustrating part was my car insurance premium increasing by 30% because the insurer found multiple violation records under my name—though they were all for taking the blame for others. Now, I flat-out refuse anyone asking to borrow points. I’d rather treat them to a meal than step on this landmine again.
