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Paul Pelosi hit with 6-month driving ban after pleading no contest to misdemeanor hit-and-run
Paul Pelosi has been banned from driving for six months after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor hit-and-run and an unlawful-turn traffic infraction. The case followed a July collision with an unoccupied parked car in Yountville, California, and matters because it brings him back to court four years after a separate DUI conviction.
A judge also placed Pelosi on probation for one year, ordered him to complete a 10-day work programme and required him to report for booking by 20 November. He paid $11,191.14 in restitution to the car’s owner and must pay court fines and fees. Prosecutors said he left the scene without identifying himself or leaving the information required by law; deputies later found him about half a mile away.
In short
- Paul Pelosi received a six-month driving ban.
- He pleaded no contest to misdemeanor hit-and-run.
- The court ordered probation, community work and restitution.
Explained simply
Paul Pelosi is the husband of Nancy Pelosi, a long-serving US politician who was Speaker of the House of Representatives. Yountville is a town in California’s Napa Valley, where drivers involved in a collision are generally required to stop and exchange details.
The case concerns a collision with a parked car that had no one in it. California law treats leaving a collision scene without providing required information as an offence, and the case has renewed attention on Pelosi’s earlier, separate driving conviction.