A WOMAN who admitted to police that she shouldn't be driving after being pulled over by highway patrol has been convicted, fined and disqualified from driving.
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Samantha Margaret Macqueen, 27, of O'Connell Road, O'Connell, appeared in person and unrepresented before Bathurst Local Court on a string of driving offences, including driving with a suspended licence, using an unregistered class A motor vehicle and using an uninsured motor vehicle.
Police facts tendered to the court told how police pulled over Macqueen's Ford Falcon in Stewart Street at 6.45am on October 1 last year.
When requested, Macqueen produced a NSW driver's licence. Police asked her if she knew why she had been stopped and she eventually responded, according to the police facts, that it was because she shouldn't be driving.
When further pressed on this point, Macqueen told officers she had a suspended licence.
Macqueen gave the officers a copy of the licence suspension notice which she had been handed by police at about 9am on September 29.
This notice advised her that her licence was suspended from September 21 until December 20, 2018 inclusive, according to the police facts.
Officers then asked her about the registration on her car.
Macqueen told them the car was unregistered and she was driving it because she wasn't able to register it.
She said she had also been told about the car's registration status two days earlier.
A roadside breath test produced a negative result, and police checks on Macqueen's licence with Roads and Maritime Services revealed the licence was cancelled due to accumulated demerit points.
For driving a motor vehicle while her licence was suspended, Macqueen was convicted and fined $500, and disqualified from driving for three months.
For using an unregistered class A motor vehicle, Macqueen was convicted and fined $250. Her use of an uninsured motor vehicle was dealt with by way of a S10 A conviction.