Question about restricted drivers license

When a teenager first gets her license she can not drive after 9:00PM except for certain circumstances. One is if it's for work and one is for emergency services such as volunteer fire department. For some reason I'm thinking(hoping) that some school activities are OK as well but I can't find anything online about it. Does anyone know if school is an exception? In this case she will be performing at a football game and it will be after 9:00 when it's over. What do players do in this situation? Please only give me the answer I want to hear. :lol:

 

the gorilla is cool.... :cheers:

 

You're not right - but thanks - :lol:

 

We were told that too and a friend of ours who's dh was cop said that it did. Not sure how'd they verify that tho? :lol:

 

The cop said it's OK or it's not OK?

 

that it is ok.

 

It sure doesn't say that on the DMV site, it only mentions work, etc. I would hope that being a player, cheerleader, dancer, in the band, etc would count as a job but I'd sure like to find out for sure before risking it.
She has to be in too many places leading up to the games for her to leave her car home and ride with me. I would have to leave work 3 hours early every Friday. The other option would be leaving her car at the school until Saturday morning, but I think WJHS locks the gates.

 

I know what you mean. When our son was in band, we always went to the games anyway, so when it was over, one of us would stay there until he could leave and ride home with him.

 

I'd call DMV just to make sure. Call the Clayton office, they are much nicer there

 

Call early in the morning before they get irritated for the day.

 

Good advice!

 

school activities are ok.

 

I don't have their home number...

Did call JoCo sheriffs dept. They said school activity is OK. I just hope the highway patrol agrees.

 

Good morning. I'm a police officer. I checked with the police officer at DMV and a lieutenant with the SHP. Both agreed with me (officer at DMV read straight from the new book) driving from an activity is not allowed. Your child will be subject to a citation even if performing because a) it is not a job and b) it is not with a volunteer police, fire, or rescue where they are an actual volunteer. I don't know why the sheriff's department told you differently. They don't work a lot of traffic so that might be the reason.

 

Honestly, with the death rate of teens in JoCo I don't think it's a bad idea to keep inexperienced kids from driving home in the dark from any event until they have had enough experience during the day. It has really gotten frightening how many teens have lost their lives and IMO any little thing that can be done should be.

Maybe parents can rotate carpooling if there is a large number of kids with restricted licenses at one particular event?

 

No doubt, I'd rather her not drive at all....
In her case she has to be at several different places on Friday starting at school, then after school, then back at school, etc. She is involved in too much, but that's a different discussion point. Until that last post from the policeman, the plan was for me to escort her home so we could get both cars home. I'll go ahead and call SHP myself and see what they say.

 

My take on this also is, You are trusting a very tired after practice late at nite dark out inexperienced darling child to drive home? You are the parent here and you are RESPONSIBLE to see that you get your child home safe. Your child is not experienced enough to do that. Please think of what could happen before you let your child drive inexperienced at nite. The clock cannot be turned back, protect and love your child and don't let them grow up too fast.

 

It sounds like he is trying to do everything possible to get information and get his daughter home safe. There are always circumstances that make that difficult to pull off, but not impossible. It's just going to take figuring out the options. In the end, it's the parents who just don't give a crap that are the problem.

 

:hurray::iagree:

 

It would be nice if some real forethought had gone into the curfew time...a lot of high school activities (ballgames, chorus and dance shows, etc...), as well as other activities like movies, church events, etc. don't wrap up until 9pm so if they had just said 10pm in the first place it wouldn't be an issue at all for 99%of kids/families. 10pm would seem to still be a reasonable curfew for sixteen year olds, and would let them get home without speeding and stressing over making it home by 9pm. The activities are just a fact of teenage life, the 9pm curfew timing is just an annoyance that makes life difficult for the families and the teens. It isn't like they haven't been driving at all after dark already, they were allowed to do that with their learner's permits, and in another month or two it gets dark at six or seven pm.