I’m not sure how this is news. Vehicle does not appear to be stolen. So joyride in their own vehicle? Doing 130 on the highway… it wouldn’t be the first time a new driver was speeding on a highway. One maybe two vehicles caught for speeding….

I’m curious if a story like this originates from a radio scanner, or if its a fed lead by an RCMP insider, or if this is the kind of incident that passes for a RCMP press release these days.

In other news a cat was found in a tree last Monday and the owner was later located and charged for willful violation of the cat registry bi-law….

someone got out of bed on the wrong side this morning.

Yes. And the cat was speeding without its ‘N’ tag on his collar, also it climbed up a protected tree. It received a week without tender vittles as a violation ticket.

I’m a little afraid of the new crop of drivers I see driving with an ‘N’. A lot of them already have no regard for the rules of the road. Maybe if more stories detailing the run-ins these drivers have with police, it would make them sit up and take notice that they do get caught sometimes.

Someone, I think forgot to mention that the cat is also suspected of peeing in somebody’s cornflakes.

Good. I had a young female N stickered, Pass me going down the Hart south of the scales with a cell phone in hand. I also see a lot of them like to hide the N sticker halfway under their licence plates. What is with that?

The N and L aren’t stickers, they are magnetic. Most vehicles have so much plastic that they don’t stick so you have to wedge them somewhere so that they can be displayed. Also makes if harder for someone else to pull off or for them to fall off in car wash etc.

doesn’t say how old she was but if it were my daughter I’d be thankful she is off the road for awhile.

The L and N program has some holes, especially the one that fails to provide an end date for the N. Some people have it for years.

Yeah this “new generation” is terrible. I know when I was 20 (before it would have been N stage) I drove perfectly, never sped and obeyed all rules of the road…
LOL

I know what the N and L stickers mean…….but what does the Z sticker mean?

And this makes the news?……pretty pathetic journalism!

The Z means a fine because it isn’t displayed properly.

The GLP is nothing more than another way your gov fleeces you.

the GLP program has a purpose and makes some sense but some changes are needed It was intended to keep young/new/inexperienced drivers safer – yet it applies to anyone getting a license. Some 30 yr old lady living on her own, with 3 kids, would have to have the L for a year, and then then N. Chances are much greater they will risk the fine, and I wouldn’t blame them

Haha. I sympathize with the 30-year-old single mom having to wait a year with her “L”, but you could just as easily (ok, more easily) say, “Why the heck didn’t you get your learners years ago??”

The thought that GLP is a way “gov’t fleeces you” is absurd. Accidents in the 18-25 age group have gone down significantly since its inception. That alone justifies it. Plus ICBC operates licensing at a loss, made up for by other departments (basically Insurance and Claims).

No N displayed means no insurance as they are violating the conditions on their license! you may not think this isn’t news worthy if you get in an accident with one of these non – compliant drivers and try to collect from their insurance.