There is also a huge flow on effect from this practice of taking ones licence from one if fines remain unpaid.
An increasing number of younger folk and poorer folk can't pay such fines , lose their licence and get caught up driving anyway thanks to a poor transport infrastructure. This accounts for an increasing amount of hit and runs and the risk the rest of us face with so many unlicensed drivers with absolutely no insurance. True to say that they are irresponsible but to introduce a system to retrieve unpaid fines at the expense of other drivers shows a legislature with no vision.
If any driver in WA thinks he/she is immune from losing their license beware you may be driving without such without even knowing it. Know of 2 cases of law abiding citizens in such a predicament , one of whom lost their licence because of an electoral commission bungle. He use to have a lot to say on the subject until he checked and found out the horrific news.
