Lifetime coach driver only has moped licence

Lifetime coach driver only has moped licence
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By h.b. - Oct 14, 2008 - 8:03 AM
Rafael López Prados says he has never had a complaint.

Rafael López Prados, a coach driver from Cambados in Pontevedra in Spain has said he can’t believe that he has been taken to court and fined after it was established that he only has a driving licence for a moped.

‘I’ve been driving coaches all my life’, he said, ‘and there has never been a compliant’. He was arrested as he was taking 53 passengers on an excursion from the Levante to Galicia and was stopped at a routine control.

He was fined 12 € a day for a year, a total of 4,320 €, and ordered to do 40 days community service.

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