After a shirt before Christmas, Ossie Gildart, 85, told him that he would have to take a driver test. But a surprise was waiting for him when he entered the New Brunswick service in Bathurst.
“He said: ‘Mr. Gildart, regret that he cannot take the evidence, his license has been suspended.'”
Gildart told him that his license was suspended until he pays $ 4.661.91 due to an accident without insurance, an accident that occurred in Toronto in 1960.
“I simply couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t remember having had an accident with which I wasn’t secured,” he said.
The Ontario motorized vehicle accident claims fund allows people to claim the damage of an accident with a driver without insurance. But Gildart does not remember having had an accident during his time in Toronto, much less one in which he had no insurance.
While living in Ontario, Gildart worked as a service technician, so he had to have safe and renew his driver’s license every year. When he left Ontario in 1971 to move home to New Brunswick, he received his class 1 license, driving trucks for CN Rail.
Ossie Gildart recently discovered that it owes more than $ 4,600 for a claim of an accident that occurred to two provinces away and 65 years ago.
And in all years he has renewed his license, in Ontario and New Brunswick, this old accident never appeared as a problem.
A spokesman for the New Brunswick Public Security Department told CBC News that the New Brunswick service makes a scanning throughout the Canada for licensed suspensions in other jurisdictions.
“However, if our investigation shows that the reason for suspension is a court order [judgment] More than 10 years, we do not have the obligation of another province to suspend or collect the pending amount, “Geffery Downey said in an email.
Gildart’s license has now been reinstalled and the proof of its driver is reserved again, but it still keeps the strong invoice of the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, although it is allowed to pay it monthly.
“Two hundred dollars a month is a great slap on the face,” he said.
“I will have to do without something to get that.”
The Ministry of Business and Public Services of Ontario said there are options for those who face claims through the program.
“If an individual is sued and disagrees, he can defend the action that has begun against them,” said spokesman Jeffery Stinson in an email.
“If a sentence has been issued, you can seek legal advice to move so that the sentence is annulled.”
Gildart’s family is still deciding on the next steps, which may include the hiring of a lawyer to help them fight office.
“They never notified anyone, for anything. I was never suspended. I never had a problem,” he said.
“I can’t believe they do this to a senior who is 86 years old next week.”
