Driving Ban

delta_bravo

Just a quick question regarding motor offences legislation. Is it actually possible to get a lifetime driving ban? I dont think i have ever heard of someone getting one. Even today a drink driver who caused the deaths of 5 people received only a 15 year driving ban along with a 4 year prison sentence. That ban is the biggest i have ever heard being handed down, so im just wondering is there provision in the law to be banned for life from driving and if anyone knows what law/act determines this?

Thanks

Vertakill

Have you done something illegal that you want to share with us first?

Ah but in seriousness, no, I haven't heard of a lifetime ban in Ireland yet.

SV

I did hear of a guy getting a lifetime ban actually, may look it up.

He was driving uninsured whilst on a ban and caused the death of another person through dangerous driving..

Remember reading it in the paper in the past few months..

SV

http://www.breakingnews.ie/Ireland/eyaumhidkfkf/rss2/


There it is..

Dartz

There was also a drunk driver who deliberately ran someone over "To scare them a little bit"

skyhighflyer

Section 26 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 provides for consequential disqualification orders upon conviction of certain scheduled offences under the Act. These include dangerous driving (including causing death), drink-driving, uninsured driving, sdriving stolen cars, etc.

The Act sets down certain minimum periods of disqualification depending on the offence, but no upper limit meaning it is open to a judge in the most serious cases to impose a lifetime ban, as a poster has noted above.

seamus

We tend to go easy on lifetime driving bans here because it effectively removes a means of punishment. That is, if you ban someone for 5 years, they might make the conscious decision to hold off for those five years and when they get back behind the wheel they'll be glad for it and less likely to re-offend in case they're banned again.

But if you ban them for life, they've no reason to fear being banned again. In this country at least, it would be very difficult to justify serious custodial sentences for driving while banned, as we don't tend to subscribe to the same ethos as the US justice system. So someone caught driving while banned for life would be unlikely to receive much more than a fine and a slap on the wrists. For most scumbags, that's the smallest sentence they've received since they were 12.

mumblin deaf ro

I think hitting a bird at 200 km/h results in an automatic lifetime ban in some kangeroo courts.

delta_bravo

SV wrote: »

http://www.breakingnews.ie/Ireland/eyaumhidkfkf/rss2/


There it is..

Ah right thanks, only took 40 convictions for him to get the lifetime ban.