In South Australia, drivers start with zero demerit points. If you gain more demerit points than your licence conditions allow, then you will likely lose your licence by way of disqualification. You can check the status of your driver’s licence on your mySA GOV...
The Statutes Amendment (Intervention Orders and Penalties) Bill 2021 has passed both Houses of SA Parliament and awaits assent to become law. The changes to come into effect can be described in three broad categories: The penalties for contravening an IO will be...
Latest SA Police figures reveal that a quarter of road fatalities recorded so far this year can be attributed to dangerous driving. Examples of this type of behaviour include: distracted drivers; excessive speeding; doing burnouts; street racing; deliberately or...
Latest SA Police figures indicate that improved drug testing processes have led to more drug-driving detections than ever before. In 2020, drug-driving detections totalled 5,500, compared to 2,284 in 2011. By comparison, drink-driving offences have fallen, with the...
Driver distraction is a major contributor to deaths and serious injury on SA roads. In an Australian Road Safety Foundation survey, a whopping 79 per cent of Australian motorists admitted to general risky behaviour. SA police figures show that between 2015 and 2019 43...
DISCLAIMER: (May 2021) This article was originally written in April 2020 when the country was first dealing with the evolving impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19). Since then, as a measure to minimise and stop community spread of COVID-19, federal and state...
