Overview
- WA ministers unveiled draft amendments dubbed Kelly’s Law, with a bill set to be introduced to parliament on Tuesday.
- Mandatory licence suspensions would extend from two to three months once serious driving charges are laid.
- Disqualification notices would expand to all drink- and drug-driving, reckless and dangerous driving, high-level speeding, and hit-and-run offences.
- Courts would gain authority to keep licences suspended until cases are finalised to bolster community safety and ease victims’ trauma.
- Maddison Peace Bain has pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death under the influence and to driving under the influence, with sentencing scheduled for early April.