Detroit-area motorists are being pummeled by whopping bills for getting their cars towed off streets and expressways, Leonard Fleming reports in the Detroit News.
Among them, Fleming writes: Shawn Evans, 42, whose van stalled near the service drive of the John C. Lodge Freeway when he hit a large puddle. He parked his car in what he thought was a public lot close to Wayne State University and when he returned two hours later his car was gone. His towing fee: $410.
Towing operators defend the costs of doing business when faced with — in many cases — with retrieving cars from roof-deep floodwaters filled with sewage.
“They are ripping folks off, man,” said Evans.
There were reports this week that some motorists were being charged upwards of $900 to have their cars towed out of one of the flooded freeways that were shut down.
