Banned driver, driving while disqualified - arrested.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Who wants to take bets that this driver gets little more than a slap on the wrist? Banned driver charged over Hume Highway police chase 'had unrestrained boy in back seat' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Who cares if he has parental responsibilities, the child would be far safer without him around.

He was already banned from driving till 2035.

He has been charged under:

1. Failing to stop during a police pursuit (Skye's Law).
2. driving while disqualified,
3. speeding by more than 45 kilometres per hour,
4. driving at a dangerous speed,
5. negligent driving,
6. failing to restrain a child,
7. leaving a child in an unattended car.

[nugge t]

Not surprised, sadly. And yes, he will probably get another licence disqualification and a fine which he will never pay off and he will keep driving in all probability.

I have employed several people over the years who had been disqaulifed for driving for life, one 5 times and the other 4 times. Not sure what it is now but at the time life was 5 years. One was caught driving out of the court car park moments after being disqaulified AGAIN.

One subsequently rode a motor bike to work but took off at a breath test. Tried to ride into an open paddock but coat hangered himself on the wire fence. Got up and ran from police who eventually caught him anyway, then proceeded to try to sue the police for man handling him when he had a neck injury. He got fine $150........

What chance does the child have.

[Redback]

I'll bet he just gets a fine, like all the other times going on that past

The law is to soft on ****** like him.

Baz.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

One also wonders why they didn't charge him with driving whilst uninsured. The fact he was driving nullifies any insurance cover.

[Bigbjorn]

One of our local former interstate truckies got in the grip of the grog and after multiple arrests and licence cancellations for DUI eventually got to lose his licence for life. I was surprised to see him driving again. I found that after (then) seven years one could apply to have it restored. He continued on his merry way with a number of further arrests and cancellations and was again handed a life cancellation. Eventually he died from the effects of long term alcoholism in his 40's. He never bothered to hide his ute in a back street but parked it openly in the pub parking lot. All the arrests I heard about were at a very high level of blood alcohol, usually 0.28 and higher.

[JDNSW]

A relative by marriage of mine is, I believe, due for release shortly - they don't all get away with a fine! (But I have no idea how many times - but it took over ten years of regularly getting caught)

John

[Bigbjorn]

A relative by marriage of mine is, I believe, due for release shortly - they don't all get away with a fine! (But I have no idea how many times - but it took over ten years of regularly getting caught)

John

I could not understand why my acquaintance was never gaoled. In Qld. then three convictions in two years at the higher reading levels was supposed to be an automatic custodial sentence. Apparently magistrates have a certain amount of discretion in sentencing.

A cousin who farmed near Allora on the Darling Downs was found late one night slumped asleep over the steering wheel, a front wheel down in a ditch, lights on, engine running. Found by the local copper who put him in the police car. My cuz was surprised to find the copper was not driving him home but to the Warwick watch-house where he blew in the vicinity of 0.3. I asked the local Senior Sergeant what he was likely to cop for this and was told the rules were at least two years cancellation, minimum $1000 fine and no possibility of getting a conditional licence for work with a reading of that level. He might even have got a short holiday if the magistrate has a bit of SOL that morning.

Cuz appeared later in the Warwick court, got nine months suspension, $500, and a conditional licence was granted. Senior Sergeant was dumbfounded when I told him. Country courts must have had a different outlook.

[nugge t]

Brian that is very much in line with the examples I posted earlier and they were in Brisbane. You see the guys had very hard childhoods in a single parent family where the mother had very little money. They had hand me down bikes and their first tennis raquet was a second hand one left behind in a store my a customer given to the young lad........