Your license is suspended for driving uninsured in a collision. When can you begin to get it back?
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A.
Immediately, once you buy a policy.
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B.
Only after paying the property-damage judgment in full.
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C.
During the last three years of the suspension, with an SR 22/SR 1P. Correct
The answer is "During the last three years of the suspension, with an SR 22/SR 1P."
You can begin getting your license back during the last three years of the four-year suspension by filing an SR 22/SR 1P and keeping it in force. A driver drawn to A reads buying a policy after the fact as fixing the underlying problem, missing that the suspension runs on its own clock regardless of new coverage.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Immediately, once you buy a policy.
Buying a policy after the fact does not undo the suspension the collision triggered. This answer reads buying coverage as fixing the underlying problem, missing that the suspension runs on its own clock.
B. Only after paying the property-damage judgment in full.
The manual names the SR 22/SR 1P filing, not payment of damages, as the recovery condition. This answer swaps the SR 22/SR 1P filing for a damages-paid-in-full standard some readers assume applies to any at-fault crash.
This question tests your knowledge of Insurance & Financial Responsibility in California. Source: California Driver Manual, "Driving Without Insurance," p.76..
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