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Our Results: Traffic Offences

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The experienced traffic lawyers at Potts Lawyers are renowned for representing clients for a wide range of traffic matters in Queensland and the Northern New South Wales Region. We represent clients facing charges related to drink driving, drug driving, speeding, dangerous driving and much more. We can also assist with special hardship order applications and work license applications. Read through some of our recent case profiles below to see the outcomes we have been able to achieve for our clients.

Driving with a relevant drug present in saliva

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Our client was charged with driving with a relevant substance (Methylamphetamine) present in his blood or saliva. This would be the client’s sixth conviction for this offence in the past six years. Potts Lawyers were able to achieve an outcome that avoided the need for our client to serve any time in prison.

Dangerous Driving

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Our client was charged with an offence of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle in circumstances where, following a heated argument, it was alleged he deliberately drove a vehicle at two people and hit them causing injuries…

Disqualified Driving

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Our client’s car was intercepted in relation to another matter. Upon police doing checks on our client’s driver licence, the police database verified that our client’s licence was currently disqualified…

Drive Without Due Care

Drive Without Due Care Icon | Driver Texting and Driving at the Same Time

Our client was charged with driving without due care and attention. He was driving along the beach and when looking in his rear view mirror to check where the other vehicles he was travelling with were behind him, he veered off course…

Drug Driving

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Our client’s car was intercepted for the purpose of a random breath test and saliva drug test. Our client provided a negative breath test (i.e. he was under the legal limit for alcohol), however his drug test returned positive for MDMA (i.e. ecstasy) being present in his system…

Special Hardship Order

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Our client had been charged with committing a high speed offence of driving at more than 40 km/h over the speed limit. This offence carries a mandatory 6 month suspension period. He sought our advice in obtaining a Special Hardship Order so that he could continue driving during his suspension period for work purposes…

Driving Whilst Relevant Drug Present

Drug Driving Icon | Driver with One Hand on the Steering Wheel

Our client was charged with driving whilst a relevant drug is present in blood or saliva. She was intercepted by police whilst driving under the influence of cannabis. She cooperated…

Driving under the influence of liquor and failing to provide a breath specimen

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Our client was charged with refusing to provide a breach specimen and driving under the influence of liquor. We negotiated with the prosecution to have one charge withdrawn and on the facts presented to the sentencing judge to obtain the best possible result for our client.

Drink Driving III

Driving Without a Licence Icon | Driver's Hands on a Steering Wheel

Our client was charged with driving over the middle alcohol limit but not over the high alcohol with a reading of 0.12%. At that time we advised him to undertake the QTOP program in circumstances where he had a number of previous convictions for like offending. We also recommended he seek assistance or a referral from his GP to address any mental health issues or alcohol issues…

Drink Driving IV

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Our client was breathalysed by police and charged with a mid-range drink driving offence (0.117%). He received a sentence with the lowest possible disqualification period.

Drink Driving V (Low Range)

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Police were conducting roadside breath tests when our client was directed into the roadside breath testing site for a random breath test. There was nothing about our client’s driving that brought him to police’s attention…

Drink Driving VI (Low Range)

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Police were stopped at a red light conducting mobile patrols when they observed our client drive though a red light signal towing a boat. Within meters of the intersection, our client pulled into his driveway and was subsequently breathalysed by police…

Driving Whilst Relevant Drug Present II

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Our client was involved in a traffic incident in which we was found not to be at fault. He sustained extremely serious injuries. Whilst he was in hospital receiving treatment, a blood test revealed the presence of cannabis in his system…

Drug Driving II

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Police located our client unconscious in the driver’s seat of his parked car. They located a used syringe in the car in addition to a small knife in the driver’s side door of the car…

Middle Range Drink Driving NSW

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The Police were conducting stationary breath tests on the off ramp of the Pacific Highway leading into Brunswick Heads. Our client was pulled over and provided a sample of his breath, which returned a reading of 0.095%.

Dangerous Operation Of A Motor Vehicle – Illegal Race

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Our client was 25-year-old man charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle with the aggravating factor of participating in an illegal race. While on a public motorway our client raced another vehicle, reaching speeds above 120km/h…

High Range Drink Drive

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Police responded to a traffic crash on a busy highway. Our client was subsequently charged with driving while under the influence of alcohol with a reading of 0.16%.

Drink Driving

Drink Driving Icon | A Windy Countryside Road

Police were performing patrols when they came across a tree which had fallen across the road. The police observed that a vehicle had crashed through the tree (causing it to fall) and had been left down an embankment. They observed the vehicle had significant damage including that the windshield had collapsed into the cabin…

Drink Driving II

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Our client was subject to a good driving behaviour period of twelve months for accumulating too many demerit points. Unfortunately, during this time she received a speeding infringement and 3 demerit points which caused her to breach her good driving behaviour period.

Dangerous Operation Of A Vehicle – Speeding

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Our client was charged with an offence of dangerous operation of a vehicle, with an aggravating circumstance of speeding. It was alleged that our client was travelling approximately 80km/h higher than the speed limit.

Disqualified Driving II

Disqualified Driving Icon | Driver with Hands on the Steering Wheel

Upon the police approaching our client’s vehicle and conducting a search on his licence status, it was revealed that he was disqualified from driving until 18 April 2022. Our client indicated he was aware of his disqualification and failed to provide an emergent reason for operating his vehicle.

Special Hardship Order II

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Our client was subject to a good driving behaviour period of twelve months for accumulating too many demerit points. Unfortunately, during this time she received a speeding infringement and 3 demerit points which caused her to breach her good driving behaviour period.

Driving with Relevant Drug Present in Blood or Saliva

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The Court accepted Ms Battersby’s submissions, and we secured an outcome of a period of probation and a nine-month disqualification period. Given our client’s traffic history was such that he had 3 previous offences, he was expecting a harsher penalty and a much longer disqualification period.

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