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Thu 15 Feb 2018 09:26
Banned! - Staring young - oldroverboy.

More than 1,000 children aged 16 and under were banned from driving last year.

Some of them were as young as 12, according to DVLA figures

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Thu 15 Feb 2018 12:45
Banned! - Starting young - Andrew-T

You must mean Starting ... ?

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Thu 15 Feb 2018 13:08
Banned! - Staring young - Engineer Andy

Yeah - banning someone already driving illegally - that'll work! If they want them off the roads, get them to ustilise their evenings doing work/work shadowing in an A&E to see victims of car accidents, etc or something similar to scare the living **** out of them into never doing such stupid things again (I'd bet that most get caught not due to 'routing stops' but only after they've committed a significant offence or been involved in an accident).

I'd also get them to work (at the time of the day they were 'driving' [even if that's in the evening]) as part of the punishment and any paid work they be doing be used to pay, IN FULL, the entire cost of the police stop, investigation all the way through to charges, court case and punishment, even if that means them working their evenings for more than a year (and still being banned from driving once the reach 17) to pay it off. Hopefully their friends and other local 'youths' would 'get' this deterrant and not do it.

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Thu 15 Feb 2018 13:19
Banned! - Staring young - scot22

You've got my vote . I d go with it in general as a consequence of any reckless driving.

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Thu 15 Feb 2018 13:19
Banned! - Staring young - Ethan Edwards

Sometimes the court puts points on. the Licence they have not got. So when they apply for it once old enough it comes pre filled in. That's nice. Some deterrent I suggest we castrate the offender Sounds harsh but think on this in a generation or two the problem will no longer exist. It works for theft Burglary spitting on the pavement and so on.

Off with their nadgerz. It's the only answer.

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Thu 15 Feb 2018 16:49
Banned! - Staring young - scot22

Nice satire

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Fri 16 Feb 2018 01:32
Banned! - Staring young - Bilboman

Yeoowwch, I actually felt that comment! Surely it would also be advisable to ensure the miscreants' parents were also , erm, prevented from bringing any more dangerous sprogs into the world too...?
No doubt it would be extremely difficult to make a case in court, but I also think that anyone who teaches an under-aged child to drive should also face harsh penalties. (Let's hone those garden shears, eh?)

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Fri 16 Feb 2018 07:54
Banned! - Staring young - Bolt

Yeoowwch, I actually felt that comment! Surely it would also be advisable to ensure the miscreants' parents were also , erm, prevented from bringing any more dangerous sprogs into the world too...?
No doubt it would be extremely difficult to make a case in court, but I also think that anyone who teaches an under-aged child to drive should also face harsh penalties. (Let's hone those garden shears, eh?)

I agree, the odd few parents around my way allow and even put their kids in cars and even mini motorcycles and allow them to drive/ride around local streets and have done for years

On odd occasions the Police do catch the odd one, but not enough to be a deterent,so its not just teenagers that drive its kids as well, I really cannot understand the mentality of those parents that put little children on their back,or, lap to let them steer a motorbike or car?

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Fri 16 Feb 2018 09:37
Banned! - Staring young - argybargy

No doubt poor parenting plays a part in all this. Where that can be proven by someone with the relevant practical experience of working in the yoof crime sector, and not merely by some talking head who has read a few books and passed an exam, I'm all for some of the burden of the youngster's lawbreaking to be borne by the parents. It doesn't have to be a financial penalty, and indeed on many occasions that would have no effect anyhow because they will be claiming benefits and would pay any fine at a quid a week. Rather by naming and shaming in the local paper, or being pelted in the stocks with unmentionables until they sign an affydavit and promise that their darlings will behave.

Some irony there, admittedly, but basically the parents should take some of the blame for their lack of control. Because time and time again we hear of teenagers who get into crime because they are allowed to do what they like, when they like, their parents being incapable of exercising even the most basic supervision.

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