Mind Your Limits

A Spanish man, R.C. who has a rather 'impressive' record of violation of traffic rules and regulations, has just been detained, again, for driving at 179 kilometres on a street zone limit of 50 K.p.h., with the charge of endangering public security. His car was towed away to the Municipal carport of his district. Before this he has had his license withdrawn 5 times, points taken away for all variety of traffic violations, and been fined dozens of times.

Cases like this are many, every week, everywhere. So many and so often that they don't get even a brief mention in the papers any more, unless there are mortal victims involved. He is one of those that fines, even heavy ones, matter little or nothing to them, nor losing points on their license, even withdrawal of these. They still continues to drive, with or without their license or their own car, and terrorize men and beast, or police.

What can be done about people like these? The solution, to me, seems clear: follow the example of France, proposed by the Minister of Interior, Michele Alliot-Marie, who presented at the end of May the project of new traffic laws, amongst various diverse measures, that the vehicle would be confiscated in cases of grave traffic infractions. This is being practiced in France now, but not all that strictly it seems. It depends to a certain extent on each judge, and in what kind of mood he got out of bed that day!

The law says that all those who drive without a permit (be it because it's not yet obtained, or it had been taken away for having lost all points), and to those who repeatedly backslide in not obeying speed limits, the ones have over the alcohol limit, or refuse to take the breathalyser test, and all those who have been involved in serious
accidents, with or without mortal victims; the car would be confiscated. If the vehicle is in good enough condition, it will be sold, if not, to the recycling depot.

In the case of R.C. I prefer that it was the latter option.

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