William Kitto was not traveling for his first time in Mexico when he got into an accident near San Vincente, Mexico while driving his friend’s pick-up.The road conditions were bad due to an incoming rain storm, which left him at the mercy of his friend’s Mexican insurance policy.

Bill and his friend were traveling at 30 MPH hour when they rounded a corner to find a Mexican military truck hurtling towards them partly on their side of the road. Not able to avoid the crash, the two vehicles hit head-on left, sending military personnel down an embankment and Bill and his friend into the drop-off wall on the opposite side.

In minutes, the Mexican police show up and one officer speeds an injured Bill away to a secure location unknown to him or his friend who is left dazed sitting by the road. In Mexico, they practice Napoleonic Law, where there is no ‘innocent until proven guilty’-exactly the opposite.

There’s a good reason why savvy travelers buy Mexican Insurance before leaving home.

Bill finds himself in a Mexican detention cell without any contact and without any knowledge of his fate, mostly because at this point he has no way of knowing whether his friend even carried Mexican Auto Insurance. Hours later, guards return to take him back to the accident scene where he is at least able to reunite with his friend and his friend’s Mexican car insurance policy. But there is much more to go through.

Bill passes a week exclusively in a Mexican hospital trying his hardest to be injured enough to stave off the inside of a Mexican jailhouse; he’s at the mercy of the local municipality, and befuddled technology that creates what adds up to paying off his way out of a Mexico jail almost impossible. There were many times when Bill was unsure if he would ever get out of the mess he was in.

In the long run, Bill does attain his tenuous freedom, but only after paying more than ,000 of his own money, even though his friend’s cheap insurance policy covered some of the damages.

Make sure you carry quality car insurance for Mexico in your vehicle, make sure you have enough coverage limit, and put your insurance ID cards inside your WALLET.

It can save you hours, weeks, or even months of potential difficulty!

 

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