http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Banned drivers just keep on driving en Sun, 31 May 2026 18:14:16 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242327 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 22:10:23 +0000 Klaxon 242327@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Related </p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/nuttyxander/status/829072657752719361">@nuttyxander</a>: If you want an entertaining and worrying read, the Traffic Commissioners’<br /> Annual Reports 2015-16 is worth your while <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/567036/tc-annual-report-2015-2016.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/567036/tc-annual-report-2015-2016.pdf</a></p> <p><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4F06YiWIAA9IQp?format=jpg&amp;name=large"></p> <p>Banned hauliers just keep on hauling </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242326 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:42:12 +0000 Min 242326@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Is there any way to stop them?</em></p> <p>Judge Dredd? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242317 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 18:56:38 +0000 minus six 242317@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's just the spirit of the age </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242311 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:39:05 +0000 Murun Buchstansangur 242311@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I struggle to comprehend how "offending the court's dignity" in person whether through naughty words or not standing and genuflecting towards his Lordship's ring or whatever, will lead to instant chokey, do not pass go, do not collect £200, while leaving court and instantly scofflawing the court's sentence leads to, erm, a ever-so-slightly harder tap of the wrists? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242310 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:29:46 +0000 crowriver 242310@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>No jail for woman who drove from court after ban</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/no-jail-for-woman-who-drove-from-court-after-ban-1-3742090" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/no-jail-for-woman-who-drove-from-court-after-ban-1-3742090</a></p> <p>18 month ban and 160 hours unpaid community work order.</p> <p>So by my reckoning she's been out on the roads in her Audi today... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242306 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 17:18:08 +0000 gibbo 242306@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's a simple case of risk v reward. If penalties are weak and chance of getting caught is low, people will drive while banned. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242295 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:27:35 +0000 dougal 242295@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Darryl Lovie, defending, stressed that his client had not committed a similar offence [driving after being banned] before."</p> <p>You have to be pretty brazen to make a defence like that. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242293 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:16:38 +0000 LivM 242293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In Russia, banned drivers have feet cut off.<br /> /joke </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242285 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:55:29 +0000 chdot 242285@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep -</p> <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/woman-drove-from-court-minutes-after-driving-ban-1-3716905" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/woman-drove-from-court-minutes-after-driving-ban-1-3716905</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242283 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:51:03 +0000 dougal 242283@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What happens when you are banned anyway? If you're the sole user of your car is it forcibly SORNed? (Sounds painful.) I'm sure I've heard of some people who'll walk straight out of the court where they received their ban and attempt to drive home. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242282 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:50:34 +0000 gibbo 242282@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>North Yorkshire Police Traffic Constable Dan Hughes and his colleagues use intelligence, automatic number plate recognition technology and sometimes luck to track down offenders.</p> <p>"There are disqualified drivers out there who will pay no regard whatsoever to the law and the justice system, and if they are told they are disqualified they will just flout that without blinking an eye," he said.</p> <p>"I came across a person just a couple of weeks ago - I was dealing with him for other offences as well as driving while disqualified. He was disqualified six times over already.</p> <p>"People who drive while disqualified will keep getting disqualified."</em></p> <p>Why? Because disqualifying them worked so well last time?</p> <p>How about confiscating their cars, fining them a few grand, and slapping them with a couple of hundred hours of community service? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17420#post-242279 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:26:52 +0000 neddie 242279@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there any way to stop them?</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38887951" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38887951</a> </p>