Some students in southeastern Indiana may be forced to take drivers education all over again because the man who was teaching them wasn’t properly certified. Chris Bentle has been preparing to get his driver’s license for months, but now he’s learning all his hard work may have been for not. “It’s just a waste of time,” said Bentle, a student at the A+ Driving School. “I wish it wouldn’t have happened, because I was looking forward to getting my license and getting a job and stuff and school and all that.” New Indiana legislation required all driving schools to reapply for their teaching and operation licenses by June 30. That day came and went, with the driving school in Aurora failing to submit the proper paperwork, according to the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Still, A+ Driving School owner Gary Baxter continued to teach, leaving students and parents in the dark about the school’s status. “I don’t like it at all,” said Bentle’s father, Gary Bentle. “Four hundred dollars — that took me and the wife there a long time to come up with.” Without the proper certification from the state, any classes or driving sessions with students won’t be recognized by the Indiana BMV. As News 5 was speaking with students, Baxter was seen exiting the school’s property. News 5 tried to reach him by phone, but calls were not returned, and he didn’t arrive at the school for a scheduled evening class on continue reading
I recently decided that the third-best job in the world is driver’s license road test examiner. The best is a tie between sports writer and lifeguard at the Playboy Mansion, which is my fallback plan when I retire. Anyway, back to getting paid to humble cocky teenage drivers on a daily basis. My oldest son just turned 16, meaning he’s now officially one of the smartest people on the planet. There’s literally nothing my wife and I can tell him that he doesn’t already know, including the most reasonable time for him to be in bed and actually sleeping, smart phone stowed out of easy reach so he doesn’t wake up exhausted and show up for a baseball game the next day looking like an extra from “The Walking Dead.” I’m pretty sure my mom is still stunned by the fact that I passed my driver’s test on the first try. That’s a little tidbit I like to use strategically with my wife, who failed because she forgot to use turn signals, and my brother, who failed because, having gotten a little full of himself chilling on the dirt roads for a year or so, he circled the course with one arm draped across the steering wheel and his other wrist resting on the stick shift. All anyone needs to know is that I walked into the Driver’s License Testing Center in Meadville that day 28 years ago ready to conquer the road and left with a little slice of plastic proving I’d done continue reading
Jennifer Axelberg cowered in the front seat of her locked vehicle as her drunken husband jumped onto the hood and punched the windshield so hard the glass spidered across the driver’s side. Jennifer, also drunk, then started the car and drove toward the safety of the tavern near Mora, Minn., where they’d been drinking earlier. He was arrested on suspicion of domestic assault and disorderly conduct — and she was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Now a Kanabec County judge has ruled that escaping domestic violence is no defense against having your license revoked for drunken driving, denying the 38-year-old Monticello woman’s challenge to the revocation of her driver’s license under Minnesota’s implied-consent law. In his ruling, District Judge Stoney Hiljus wrote that “the episode of domestic violence here is outweighed by the potential hazards [Axelberg] created for the public when she drove her vehicle while intoxicated.” Although Axelberg’s yearlong revocation period is up, Pacyga said they will appeal the case on principle. Axelberg, whose blood-alcohol level registered 0.18 percent, pleaded guilty to careless driving. She reconciled with her husband, Jason, who pleaded guilty to his charges and testified on her behalf at the revocation hearing. They are now receiving counseling. Under state law, the necessity defense is available for individuals charged with a crime “if the harm that would have resulted from continue reading
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