We've been doing some important work in Lowell Massachusetts lately and have become well accustomed to the Lowell Inspections Services and the Lowell Police Department.
The investigations into vehicle accidents is increasing and for my office perhaps eclipsing the worker's compensation aspect.
 More and more "unknown" drivers and hard to find witnesses and victims land on my desk as we go into the 21st century. There is a surge in numbers of unlicensed drivers on the roads of  Massachusetts not due to anything but a more cohesive illegal alien advocacy here.

We have uncovered several scandalous efforts where legal immigrants who have migrated to America and into Massachusetts, have set up companies
and have become incorporated to provide assistance to illegal immigrants. The help the illegal aliens (IAs) receive from these
advocates is usually in the area of setting up bogus companies and then helping these companies get vehicles registered even without a specific legal driver for the said vehicles.
The end result is that unqualified drivers are on the same roads as the rest of society, putting many at risk and provably, too many accidents are occurring.
We have become accustomed to the sarcastic attitudes of police officers in traffic divisions of their cities and towns and understand their frustration.
They are inundated with poor information for drivers, witnesses and even victims.
Drivers are fleeing from the scene on foot and in hundreds of cases the vehicles are never claimed but left behind for the true owner's fear of deportation etc.
Eventually these otherwise salvageable vehicles are impounded and then often crushed.

Some examples come to mind. Not to pick on Lowell but it seems as though this may be the worst situation in Massachusetts. We have investigated a bunch of accidents where the driver at fault is an IA or
the victim driver is an IA (therefore illegally driving) but for the insurance and police it is a paperwork nightmare. Try locating a person without any proper documentation and who has no desire to be found.
There are many lawyers who understand that this is a pretty lucrative industry and who are actually training the IAs as to their rights in hospitals and civil courts so the police and insurance companies may struggle for information on these claimants but only before the court proceedings begin. The IAs (not unlike many legal residents here) are learning that any involvement in a vehicle accident can prove to be an otherwise unreachable cash windfall. We are aware of many who enter the USA for this reason alone.
People will show up and risk facing authorities if they are picking up $40K for being in a fender bender. Legislation is needed here and soon.

Two examples come to mind.

1) A pizza delivery man was struck by a vehicle driven by an IA who immediately abandoned the victim and the scene of the accident according to police. The driver is still being searched for and the wake of the accident has left the victim paralyzed from the neck down with a severed spinal cord.

2) The wife of a Sherborn Massachusetts police officer is driving on Rt 27 when a vehicle travelling in the opposite direction crosses the double yellow line striking her at at a somewhat low rate of speed but enough to cause her airbag to be deployed.
   According to witnesses, the driver and his two passengers got out of the vehicle smiling at each other, grabbing their necks and laid down waiting for emergency services. Officer Leurini's wife sat pinned to her seat by the airbag while her nine month unborn baby boy died in her womb due to the trauma of the airbag. The driver and his friends were all illegal aliens and are now accused of staging a motor vehicle accident and manslaughter.

 


There are hundreds of other similar cases throughout the Massachusetts Industrial Accident boards and not all are at the hands of illegal aliens but the cases are rising dramatically in which IAs are involved.
Don't get mad at your insurance company if and when the rates go up due to this problem. Instead, get mad at the fact that insurance companies are not being protected by your government and the law and therefore, you are not being protected either. The solution until the law is enforced properly is to invest in highly skilled private investigators to unveil the necessary data relevant to the cases. Time, money and lives can all be saved here by expanding the use of highly skilled investigators.