LICENCE LUNACY

 WACD wants to know about the different scenarios that you have

 encountered re the drivers licence.

It seems that the drivers licence has more protection on it than our

lives.                  

Legislation must be changed so that the correct message is sent about

road trauma. 

Why does the government legislate to keep drivers on the road who

have broken every road law in the book?

 Why do drivers who have killed on our roads keep their licence until

they face court? 

Why do drivers who get sentenced lose their licence while they are in

Jail? 

 Drivers can kill innocent people,  keep their licence, drive themselves

to court some 12 months later, then if they get a jail term the licence

loss is served at the same time as they are in jail so as not to

inconvenience them 

Drivers can then drive home from Jail

They are never off the road

We pay for them to get their licence back while they are in jail!

 Apparently a  culpable driver cannot be inconvenienced for killing

innocent people 

Once again the message sent is that to kill on the roads is not all that

serious. 

Why should they ever be allowed to drive again? 

 Losing their licence should be the least of their punishment.  

The drivers licence is easy to get and hard to lose

 It should be the other way around 

Here are some examples: 

1/ A driver who drives while disqualified for drink driving, continues to  drive

and drives drunk and crashes his car killing a much loved family man. 

 While the driver is awaiting court facing a culpable driving charge the

original licence disqualification expires, so regardless of the fact he drove

while disqualified and killed somebody he gets his licence back until he goes

to court to face the culpable driving charge.     Lunacy 

2/ A probationary driver who kills when speeding and drink/drug driving

doesn’t lose his licence immediately. What message does that send?

 3/ Drivers may lose their licence on the spot if their alcohol

content is over .15

 4/ Probationary drivers need to be .07 before their licence may be

taken on the spot 

All of the above apply even if the drivers have killed people 

The whole procedure is inconsistent.

Some drivers are kept in custody and others are not 

Some drivers will lose their licence others will not 

The pain caused is the same for each family regardless of    how many people were killed 

 So why do police allow some drivers to stay on the road ?

Why are some drivers kept in custody and others not? 

 The driving is culpable in each case  

Yet most drivers just receive a summons to appear in court.

No arrest, no bail

The message sent to the public is wrong.  

Driver responsibility is not taught this way 


HOW DOES THIS PROBATIONARY DRIVER HAVE HIS LICENCE retained in the system at all. He should be told to come back when he is five years older

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Email  info@culpabledriving.org   with your scenario