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Woman caught driving with suspended licence ... for the 3rd time this year
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this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2024
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Many who do this have no choice but to drive or lose their housing, job, children, etc. But, this city seems to have an extensive public transportation network.
Even without that option, if a license is suspended, it usually is for a reason. And more often than not the reason is that the driver is not safe for the environment. The risk of losing whatever is dear to them if they lose the licence is a something that should have been taken into consideration before whatever lead to the suspension.
My license was suspended in rural Michigan because I had a broken muffler. I fixed the muffler, but the fix wasn't recorded correctly, and so I rec'd an administrative suspension of my license. ...Which I didn't even discover until I was pulled over a year later, and arrested. But there's not any public transit in rural Michigan, and the distances too far to realistically ride a bicycle, which meant that I couldn't stop driving to get to and from work. I kept paying my fines, but every time i had enough saved to pay the reinstatement fees, I'd get pulled over again (yay for having a shitbox car and living paycheck to paycheck, right?). Eventually I ended up in a place where I could bike to work, and ended up riding five miles a day to work in west Michigan for about a year, including through blizzards.
Don't assume that licenses get suspended for reasons that have anything to do with the safety of the driver.
OK, that sounds like a very American problem. They don't suspend a licence just for fun in my country.