Driving whilst on bail?

[keemaklan]

Me and my friend were talking when randomly we get onto the subject of bad driving etc and then onto prosecution of drink driving/dangerous driving and even death by dangerous driving. I was under the assumption that you can NOT drive if you are on bail for any motoring convictions, regardless of bail conditions or the lack of them. My friend seems to think otherwise as 'You're innocent until proven guilty' so what do the PH wise think?

Can you drive legally if you're on bail for a serious driving offence?

The internet doesn't conjure up much on the subject so put us out of our misery and let me prove myself right (as usual)....


Thanks,

Keema.

[keemaklan]

Carnage said:

Sorry - your mate's right!

You can drive until conviction, when a court may impose a discretionary disqualification pending sentence. Example - you're convicted of dangerous driving, bailed for pre-sentence reports, but disqualified in the interim.

I hope your wrong otherwise this is going to be quite embarrassing for me. I only just stopped calling him a 'dumb fat p-rick' a few minutes ago for going against what I said.

[keemaklan]

Starfighter said:

Plenty of cases where a person is bailed to appear on a serious driving offence and required to attend due to a likely disqualification.

Are we talking driving offences or just general bail?

er, don't quite understand what you mean.

Lets put it like this: Mr X is speeding excessively and someone dies because of his speed. He has now been charged for Death by dangerous driving. He has been bailed to return to court at a later date. Whilst on bail, can he drive legally even if he has no bail restrictions?

[keemaklan]

Nicely put Essayer...

Thanks for all your input. I suppose I'll just have to swallow this one and accept I was wrong.

or just pretend I never asked on PH and he'll probably forget after a day, leaving my ego intact.