In 2023, the California Department of Motor Vehicles found time to write to Loren Chow. The letters warned that his wages could be garnished, his property seized and a lien placed on his home, all over late registration fees on a Nissan SUV, according to an investigation published Oct. 19 by CalMatters.
That SUV had been totaled the previous June, when a loaded semitruck struck it from behind near Fresno. Chow’s wife, Jenny, was killed.
The man driving the truck, Baljit Singh, still held his license while those letters were going out. The DMV didn’t suspend it until 2024, after he had been convicted of manslaughter in two different counties for two different deaths…