antihawk
Member
Hi all
Like many of you here I have regrettably been caught for drink driving. My breath reading was 46 (so relatively low) but my car was crashed into some trees on the side of an A road at 4am.
I have a previous drunk in charge conviction with a 126ug reading (so very high) from June 2018. I got a two month ban and an eight week curfew.
I am aware that for drink driving offences there are previous relevant offence that if committed in the last years will shunt your mandatory ban up to 36 months.
Is drunk in charge a relevant previous conviction? I don't see it on the list so perhaps not?
I understand that this previous conviction will be taken as an aggravating factor in court but I'm specifically asking in terms if this previous offence will increase the ban to at least 36 months?
As my breath reading was 46 this time I'm in the lowest band of sentencing guidelines with 12-16 months ban as the range.
Basically I'm asking if my drunk in charge conviction in the past will increase the ban to three years or more, or whether it won't?
Thanks in advance.
Like many of you here I have regrettably been caught for drink driving. My breath reading was 46 (so relatively low) but my car was crashed into some trees on the side of an A road at 4am.
I have a previous drunk in charge conviction with a 126ug reading (so very high) from June 2018. I got a two month ban and an eight week curfew.
I am aware that for drink driving offences there are previous relevant offence that if committed in the last years will shunt your mandatory ban up to 36 months.
Is drunk in charge a relevant previous conviction? I don't see it on the list so perhaps not?
I understand that this previous conviction will be taken as an aggravating factor in court but I'm specifically asking in terms if this previous offence will increase the ban to at least 36 months?
As my breath reading was 46 this time I'm in the lowest band of sentencing guidelines with 12-16 months ban as the range.
Basically I'm asking if my drunk in charge conviction in the past will increase the ban to three years or more, or whether it won't?
Thanks in advance.