Coweta County Vehicle Impound Guide

A DUI tow in Coweta County goes to a company on the Sheriff's rotation list, and the dominant one is Southside Wrecker, with its Newnan impound facility at 679 US-29 South. Arrests near the county's edges may go to a secondary operator like Orrs Wrecker Service at 637 South Highway 29. Southside runs an online impound search where a family can look up a vehicle by license plate or VIN, which saves a round of phone calls.

Retrieving the car takes a state photo ID, proof of ownership by title or registration, and proof of active insurance. The DUI arrest creates a problem: the officer confiscated the physical license, and the tow yard wants a hard-copy license, plus the owner usually can't legally drive anyway. The workaround is to bring a second, fully licensed and insured driver to move the car off the lot.

If the registered owner is still in the Coweta County Jail, a permission note isn't enough. Southside requires a specific Hold Harmless form that names the vehicle by VIN and has to be signed by the owner in front of a notary. Getting a notary to an inmate is its own project, usually coordinated through the bondsman or jail staff, so families should download the form early and line up the notarized signature before making a trip to the lot.

Fees are capped by Georgia's Maximum Rate Tariff No. 5, and the first 24 hours of storage is free by law. But the release office keeps standard business hours with a lunch closure and a hard daily cutoff, often stopping release processing around 4 p.m. even though the office is open until 5. Miss that and the car rolls into another 24-hour storage cycle.