Albany P-plater fined for several traffic offences while illegally driving in tractor

A P-plater has been fined for illegally driving a tractor along a main road in Albany and high-beaming a police car. Banjo Apollos Imberti, 18, was convicted in his absence for a string of driving offences in Albany Magistrates Court last Thursday. Imberti was fined a total $500 for using a high beam when less than 200m from an oncoming vehicle, no authority to drive, using an unlicensed vehicle, failing to correctly affix and display a number plate on a vehicle and failing to display P-plates. Police prosecutor Sergeant Alan Dean told the court Imberti was driving a tractor on Chester Pass Road about 9:30pm on February 10. A police car was driving in the opposite direction towards Imberti who had the vehicle’s high-beam lights on. The driver of the police vehicle “flashed” the young driver to “dip” his lights but he failed to do so, Sgt Dean said. The teenager was then pulled over by police and they found Imberti was in breach of several traffic offences. The tractor didn’t have registered licence plates and Imberti didn’t hold the correct class to be driving that type of vehicle. Sgt Dean said Imberti “wasn’t aware” the tractor wasn’t registered. “The vehicle should be registered by the employer,” he said. Sgt Dean said Imberti was also a provisional driver and wasn’t displaying P-plates. Magistrate Dianne Scaddan described the offending as a “rolling stream of failures”.