11-year old boy disqualified from driving for a year
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An 11-year-old boy who was caught behind the wheel of a BMW has been disqualified from driving for a year.[^] Since the legal minimum for driving a car is 17, is this punishment really going to do any good. He also received 9 penalty points on his licence, 3 of which are for driving with out a licence. So, which licence are these penalty points being applied to??
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An 11-year-old boy who was caught behind the wheel of a BMW has been disqualified from driving for a year.[^] Since the legal minimum for driving a car is 17, is this punishment really going to do any good. He also received 9 penalty points on his licence, 3 of which are for driving with out a licence. So, which licence are these penalty points being applied to??
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Since the legal minimum for driving a car is 17, is this punishment really going to do any good. He also received 9 penalty points on his licence, 3 of which are for driving with out a licence. So, which licence are these penalty points being applied to?? I can't speak for UK law, but where I live in the US the loss of licence provision would begin when he was old enough to legally drive, I think the points would be applied then as well. I assume it would work similarly there.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Since the legal minimum for driving a car is 17, is this punishment really going to do any good. He also received 9 penalty points on his licence, 3 of which are for driving with out a licence. So, which licence are these penalty points being applied to?? I can't speak for UK law, but where I live in the US the loss of licence provision would begin when he was old enough to legally drive, I think the points would be applied then as well. I assume it would work similarly there.
Here in the U.S., in Miami, FL. I knew a guy that drove without a license and wrecked his parent's car ... he was unable to get a drivers license until we was 21 years of age ... [edit] Oops, guess I should have indicated that wasn't by his parent's choice, but by that of a judge. I'm guessing if his parents had any say in the matter, they would have opted for the death penalty on this one ... :doh: ok, bad joke. ;P [/edit]
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An 11-year-old boy who was caught behind the wheel of a BMW has been disqualified from driving for a year.[^] Since the legal minimum for driving a car is 17, is this punishment really going to do any good. He also received 9 penalty points on his licence, 3 of which are for driving with out a licence. So, which licence are these penalty points being applied to??
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Sadly, at least in my part of the US, it doesn't matter how many points you have or how long you get your license suspended for because people still drive without one. Worst of all is the fact that most of these people lost their licenses for drunk driving but still continue to do both!:mad: ------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done.
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Sadly, at least in my part of the US, it doesn't matter how many points you have or how long you get your license suspended for because people still drive without one. Worst of all is the fact that most of these people lost their licenses for drunk driving but still continue to do both!:mad: ------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done.
Nicholas Wigant wrote: Sadly, at least in my part of the US, it doesn't matter how many points you have or how long you get your license suspended for because people still drive without one. Here, you cannot even suspend a license if it is used for primary employment (not commute: say a delivery person). Until the company fires the person, or moves him out of a driving related job, you cannot suspend the license. You can make him serve time, pay fines, do community service, but you can't take away the license. Not suprisingly we are in the top 15 states on danger on the roads due to DUI. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Nicholas Wigant wrote: Sadly, at least in my part of the US, it doesn't matter how many points you have or how long you get your license suspended for because people still drive without one. Here, you cannot even suspend a license if it is used for primary employment (not commute: say a delivery person). Until the company fires the person, or moves him out of a driving related job, you cannot suspend the license. You can make him serve time, pay fines, do community service, but you can't take away the license. Not suprisingly we are in the top 15 states on danger on the roads due to DUI. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: Not suprisingly we are in the top 15 states on danger on the roads due to DUI. Just so i'm sure not to visit.... where do you live? Joseph Dempsey joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: Not suprisingly we are in the top 15 states on danger on the roads due to DUI. Just so i'm sure not to visit.... where do you live? Joseph Dempsey joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
Joseph Dempsey wrote: Just so i'm sure not to visit.... where do you live? New Mexico.... however, you are safer in a car. We are #1 state in DUI involving pedestrians (ie running them over). Both per population... we are in the bottom 10 states for population, top ten for physical size of state, so very low-density population, just high accident rate per population. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: Not suprisingly we are in the top 15 states on danger on the roads due to DUI. Just so i'm sure not to visit.... where do you live? Joseph Dempsey joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
Wow, you'r still alive :) Haven't seen you around for a while... - Anders
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Nicholas Wigant wrote: Sadly, at least in my part of the US, it doesn't matter how many points you have or how long you get your license suspended for because people still drive without one. Here, you cannot even suspend a license if it is used for primary employment (not commute: say a delivery person). Until the company fires the person, or moves him out of a driving related job, you cannot suspend the license. You can make him serve time, pay fines, do community service, but you can't take away the license. Not suprisingly we are in the top 15 states on danger on the roads due to DUI. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote: Not suprisingly we are in the top 15 states on danger on the roads due to DUI. ... and I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that they often sell alcohol at the gas station :omg: "We need less government, not more. The idea that we can become a better society by having a bigger rule book is ridiculous, regardless of who is trying to change the rules" - Doug Goulden