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withdrawn 5 times, points taken away for all variety of traffic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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