After a fender-bender before Christmas, 85-year-old Ossie Gildart was told he’d have to take a driver’s test. But a surprise was waiting for him when he walked into Service New Brunswick in Bathurst.
“He said, ‘Mr. Gildart, I’m sorry you can’t take the test, your licence has been suspended,’” Gildart said.
Gildart was told his licence was suspended until he pays $4,661.91 because of an uninsured accident — an accident that happened in Toronto in 1960.
A spokesperson for New Brunswick’s Department of Public Safety told CBC News that Service New Brunswick performs a Canada-wide scan for licence suspensions in other jurisdictions.
“However, if our investigation proves the reason for suspension is a court-ordered [judgment] more than 10 years old, we have no obligation to another province to suspend or collect the outstanding amount,” Geoffery Downey said in an email.
They have to investigate it first (in the fourth paragraph of the summary above).
The article doesn’t say whether the investigation has begun or not.
It does say he’s on a payment plan of $200 per month.