Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara shared her rationale for repeatedly driving without a license, including in a car crash in Jamaica Plain in June for which she’s facing charges, in an exclusive interview with NBC10 Boston. Lara is accused of driving with a revoked license in an unregistered, uninsured car with an expired inspection sticker that belonged to someone else when…
; she's since pushed back on how fast she was going.
In the interview on Monday, Lara said that, while she was apologetic about what happened, she was forced to drive without a license to properly take care of her son while pushing the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to restore her license over a 2014 speeding ticket in Connecticut. "I have gone over [in] my head how many different ways I could have handled this, and there were times where we could have maybe minimized the amount of times where I had to get behind the wheel, but I don't see any other opportunities where I could have said, 'OK, yeah, I can afford to take an Uber and Lyft back and forth to school for six weeks while the school bus figures out whether or not my son is going to have a bus monitor,'" Lara said.
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