If the kid's parents have any property, you might collect something after a long, expensive and risky lawsuit process. My sister lives in Poinciana near Kissimmee, and in December her vehicle was struck and flipped over by a speeding 17 year old, no license, no insurance, and the car belonged to a friend of his, also not insured. She got squat out of the deal. Not only that, but when the insurance company totaled her car, she got a notice from her bank that she needed to pay the loan balance within ten days. She wasn't even reimbursed for the $500 she spent on a rental car. The kid and car owner never even got a ticket. Bottom line is, don't be involved in any kind of traffic accident in Florida. In NY, both the kid and the car owner would have been in court explaining themselves . . . and might even have spent a night or two in jail . . . but apparently not in Florida.
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