Is SR22 unavoidable with DUI charge?

Under an SR-22 policy you will be able to be insured as a high risk driver and you may find that if you are truthful on your insurance application you will be treated as high risk anyway by the underwriters.

Check with a lawyer in your locale to discuss more of the details.

Good luck to you.

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SR-22 Insurance would be required for a period of 3 years following a conviction for DUI or the loss of the Department of Licensing administrative hearing. So yes, you would need to win the appeal and have the DUI dismissed or amended to some other charge in order to avoid SR-22.

At this juncture, in order to avoid SR-22 you have two options. One is to win an appeal of the DOL order of suspension and have the DUI charge dismissed or reduced to an offense that would not require a license suspension. The other option is to enter into and complete a five (5) year deferred prosecution of the criminal charge. I am certainly not suggesting you enter into a deferred prosecution pursuant to Chapter 10.05 of the RCW just to avoid SR-22. Entering into deferred prosecution solely for that purpose would be fool hardy. I simply mention it here because it is the second option for avoid the license suspension and SR-22. Keep in mind that an IID would still be required under this option.

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