Question juridique clé
Whether a 16 km/h inner-city speeding offense justified a license withdrawal or only a warning.
Solution extraite
The offense was objectively a minor case, and given the elapsed time and the driver’s overall record, a warning was sufficient.
Motifs extraits
Although a prior one-month withdrawal existed, it was remote in time and not based on a serious case. The court held that relying on that prior measure alone to deny a warning conflicted with federal law, especially in light of the then-future stricter graduated system, which would also have allowed only a warning because no administrative measure had been imposed in the preceding two years.