TWO 91-year-old hoons were among 260,522 Queensland drivers

[K93George]

Originally Posted by DMXR6T

I unknowingly risked driving an unlicenced vehicle after returning from overseas. An employee used the car and there was an unpaid parking fine and the vehicle registration had been suspended, unknown to me. This whole approach is about revenue and not justice or road safety.

Depends on the circumstances, parking fines are handed out to prevent people from unfairly using parks, not giving others the chance to park, or it could have even been your employee stole a handicap park. The parking fine most likely would have been justified.

Now, did many months pass and he did nothing to pay the fine? Court orders and the like? The Sheriff may opt to suspend your licence or registration if you just refuse to pay the fine. That explains the suspended registration. Irrelevant you didn't know, if the council made reasonable effort to inform you of the fine, your personal knowledge of the matter, matters to no one but yourself.

No, if it was about revenue you would have a letter of demand, property taken, interest and fees applied for failing to pay the fine. Instead, your registrations was suspended because you didn't after a reasonable timeframe pay back the fine.