Amazingly, the RTA did what the threatened and I have been banned from driving for six months. Embarrassment at having to catch public transport has it's upside though. I have lost weight from all the extra walking I now do.
The gross unfairness of my disqualification still rankles. Despite letters of complaint to the CEO of the RTA about me being a working doctor and needing a car to visit elderly patients in their homes, I was told that the decision was final and that was that.
Dinner parties and nights out with friends and colleagues confirms that many of my cohort are in imminent danger of losing their licences too. so the thought crossed my mind during a feverish night of insomnia that I should start the Anti RTA party for the next state election. I reckon I would have thousands of members all appalled at the unfettered power of this statutory body to wreck the lives of otherwise law abiding citizens.
As the magistrate so poignantly put it before me and the assembled multitude in court, "If you had been low range drink driving I have the discretion restore your licence at my discretion but I cannot affect points accrued by fines from the constabulary. The law is an ass.
Bad luck doctor."
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