Consequence of a careless driving conviction

[Matt_TG]

Nasty's right, you may have been done for driving offences but not been to court. If you go to court and are convicted then it's on your criminal record. That's what I was referring to.

Ixion, how much do you buy souls for? Enough to get me a new bike??!!

[sinfull]

Driving convictions do not stop ya getting into other countries !
Careless driving is jack diddly Rob, ask EVERY person who's ever had an accident and been classed as being at fault ! Ummmm could be a large pecentage of NZ drivers here !
Have had a careless charge b4 (not through and accident but rather a cop in a booze ambo saw some overtaking i was doing on the bike some yrs back) $150 fine and costs, no demerits, no loss of licence, no three strikes your out !
I've never had to disclose my driving records unless its for a driving job or insurance companies !
Employers (Ok Bikerchick may worry over driving convictions here) are more concerened with criminal convictions ie theft !
And being a driver/operator I have diclosed them a few times and it's never hampered me in getting any jobs !
Don't sweat the little things mate ! Think your employer would be more concerned with your time out of the seat here !

[geoffm]

The Criminal Records (Clean Slate) Act 2004 has a bearing on this:
http://www.justice.govt.nz/pubs/othe...e/english.html

[BiK3RChiK]

I ask about all convictions, not just driving ones, as my employees drive my work vehicles which are worth a considerable amount of money. I want to know about any convictions but am especially interested in driving convictions in the past 10 years and any theft convictions. I concede that most people, as they 'mature', learn from their past mistakes. However, there are those that don't, and it is these people I wish to avoid employing.

If a prospective employee chose to not tell me about any convictions and I 'discovered' it after the fact, I'd probably not employ that person. However, if they said to me at an interview, 'yes, I have a dangerous driving conviction (or whatever) from 7 years ago when I was a hoon, but haven't had any incident since', then I think if they fit the bill for the job, I'd look at employing them.

I recommend full disclosure, and if you truly are responsible now and have 'reformed' then any prospective employer should see that, and take that into consideration.

[Ixion]

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Ixion, how much do you buy souls for? Enough to get me a new bike??!!

Depends on what nick it's in. Mint condition souls are rare as nowadays, but the battered clapped out junkers you see all around are pretty worthless.

[mouldy]

Interesting. I was done for dangrous (quite some time ago now), but it doesn't show up on my covictions (full disclosure). I though traffic offences didn't anyway, only criminal, therefore cannot effect any visas. Frankly if your on a NZ passport there are very few countries you can't just walk into and get tourist visa anyway.

I have numerous careless , dangerous , reckless ,failing to stop etc convictions BUT if a form asks whether I have any criminal convictions I tick the no box because I consider these traffic offences rather than criminal .

[KiwiRat]

I have numerous careless , dangerous , reckless ,failing to stop etc convictions BUT if a form asks whether I have any criminal convictions I tick the no box because I consider these traffic offences rather than criminal .

Yeah, that's pretty much how I view them too.