Drink Driving Repeat offender QLD

It has been established by research that majority of repeat drink drivers have alcohol dependence. This makes them unable to control their intake of alcohol which means they will surely be convicted repeatedly for drink driving. Because of the increased and repeated risk they impose on road users in Queensland, the penalty of cumulative disqualification has been imposed upon repeat drink drivers.

The cumulative disqualification means that the penalty of periods of disqualification for each drink driving conviction will no longer be served simultaneously. Instead, they periods of disqualification will be served one after another so that the repeat drink driver will be kept off the road for the full periods of each of the penalties of disqualification that he has been sentenced with.

Subsequent periods of disqualification will not begin until after full service of the first period of disqualification. This stiff penalty is hoped to prove an incentive for drink drivers not to commit subsequent drink driving offenses.