Disqualified Driver News Today

Gardaí and peers from RSA Ireland caught the motorist after he drove through a checkpoint.

Gardai arrested a driver and seized a car in Portarlington earlier today.  Gardai said: “Laois Roads Policing Unit on patrol today in Portarlington o...

Some of the unlicensed drivers convicted in Rockhampton Magistrates Court recently:

Premium Content Subscriber only A MAN caught with a stolen car admitted feeling psychotic at the time after using the drug ice. Daniel Michael Paton, a disability pensioner, pleaded guilty in Ipswich Magistrates Court to unlawful use of a motor vehicle at Sadliers Crossing on February 7; and driving while disqualified. No agreed facts of the case were read onto the public record by the police prosecution or the magistrate. Defence barrister Terry Strong gave an indication of the case in his...

Premium Content Subscriber only COVERT cameras filmed the reckless antics of hoons doing burnouts at Swanbank as onlookers cheered them on. When another of the drivers to be caught in the sting went before an Ipswich court, police said they recorded three of the mans passengers hanging out of the cars open windows, with one dragging his left leg on the road when the grey Ford slid sideways. Cameron Danielle was brought in from jail to appear in the dock before the Ipswich Magistrates Court f...

Premium Content Subscriber only A Coast man was found with a 40cm samurai sword-like knife just months before he inflicted “ghastly” injuries when he stabbed a friend in the face and leg. Quinn Daoud was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty in Maroochydore District Court to 26 charges including three counts of possessing a knife, four counts of driving without a license and one count of unlawfully entering a vehicle to commit and indictable offence. It come...

Premium Content Subscriber only A MAN caught riding his motorcycle while disqualified this week told an Ipswich magistrate it had not been a deliberate act of defiance. Joseph Spijkers said he had not received the official court letter about his disqualification when he was pulled over a few days later riding on the Cunningham Highway. The disqualification had been imposed by the court while he was not present, and he claimed to have been unaware of his situation at the time. Spijkers conceded,...

Premium Content Subscriber only A single mums repeat offending has resulted in her being banned from driving for four years. Natalijah Beverley Louise Dodd-Brown, 23, pleaded guilty in Yeppoon Magistrates Court last Thursday to driving while disqualified by a court order. Dodd-Brown was originally disqualified by a court last October for two years. But on January 29, she was again caught behind the wheel on Rockhamptons Quay St. Dodd-Brown told police she was unaware of her disqualificatio...

Premium Content Subscriber only A TRUCK driver banged on the window of a tradie’s ute then punched him in a nasty outburst of road rage. When the tradie put up his arm to protect his head the blow from Alan Davidson struck his forearm, an Ipswich court has heard. Davidson was a disqualified driver at the time and should not have been on the road in his work truck when he lost his temper. It was one of nine charges Davidson was sentenced for at Ipswich Magistrates Court on Thursday. Alan J Dav...

Police used CCTV footage to catch a repeat offender thumbing his nose at the law