Rivas

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

Plaintiffs, who had been involved in an automobile accident and whose driving privileges were thereafter suspended under the California Financial Responsibility Law (Cal. Vehicle Code, § 16000 et seq.) pending their deposit of cash security amounts fixed by the Department of Motor Vehicles, bring this suit under Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 , to challenge the constitutionality of the California statute under which the Department acted.

For this reason, a three judge court was convoked as required by 28 U.S.C. §§ 2281 and 2284.

The California Financial Responsibility Law, Vehicle Code, § 16000 et seq., amended 1967, requires that the driver of every motor vehicle which is in any manner involved in an accident originating from the operation of a motor vehicle on any street or highway which accident has resulted in damage to the property of any one person in excess of $200 or in bodily injury or in the death of any person, shall within fifteen (15) days after the accident report the accident on a form approved by the Department to the office of the Department.

Unless the driver involved in an accident described in § 16000 complies with one of the…