Bald tyres and on a learners license

nothing to do with bald tyres nor WOF.

you could give her a 2021 Porsche 911 GT3 with Michelin PS4S and she'd still kill someone.

all to do with attitude towards life in general and her upbringing.

Aren't 3 strikes enough to deserve disqualification? Wasn't learning with subsequent offences.

No wof = Meh, it's just paper work
Bald tyres = Very bad
Several tickets for learner’s licence breach = bad

Yes in a nutshell. Having a current WoF actually means very little, and unless it can be proven that a defect with a vehicle that would have immediately prior to a crash caused it to fail a WOF caused the crash it also means squat re insurance too. Obviously in this case that doesnt apply. Given that knowledge of minimum tread depths is tested in the course of obtaining a learner permit, that isn't a defence either. The operator is responsible for ensuring minimum requirements are met.

So the system based around fines and tickets for generally law-abiding motorists has worked a treat then?

Post #16:

"It is likely she was unaware what a significant impact bald tires have on a cars handling at speed in the wet, and assumed the car would make it around the corner."

HUGE assumption. Wtf would a person imagined tires have tread for?

Look at the amount of cars with obvious from a far distance problems, like no headlight or tail lights not working.
If these cars were getting stopped by Police, then they would be picking up on the not so obvious from a distance, but still obvious to the owner, car fitness fails.
This would push up the fitness quality of cars on the road, help eliminate unfit cars, and push people to actually check their cars regularly, eliminating one problem at a time rather than let them build up to a unmanageable amount.

All the while generating a welcome form of income $$$x$$$ for the government.

' Broken windows policy' anyone?

This stuff happens now and again and dosent need media attention, its the first "bald tyres" case i have herd of in a long time, and broken window policy stuff is a major failure full stop, a mate had a van in the early 2000 deregistered but still had plates on it, very tidy wich is why he didnt get stopped all the time, and no frount brakes, the breaking system was funny on it and it would still lock one back wheel up on the break peddle without the frount breaks operateing at all, i went all the way to himatangi with him in it to pick up an old car, all the tyres were worn out, if you saw the van you would never know, all he had to do was gear down at intersections and apply the back break, and he drove like that for two years, it is very seldom these days, all the lights and indercators were in perfect working order, a car with a tail light out is likely otherwise in good condition, and to be frank, aslong as one is working i doubt it will cause someone to go careening into the back of them

Agree some people cant afford tyers but everyone "must drive" it was an accident, thats it, and people who do this usualy keep there cars otherwise immaculate to avoid detection, but it is very seldom now, some cars have blown tail lights ect, but it has gotten so tough people are getting there cars towed while driveing them for a warrent because they havent been on the road in a long time wich is stuped, if the cops stopped a car with four balled tyres it would be ordered of the road and probably towed, they would lose the car now unlike the past, i know somebody who got a car in working order towed on the way to the warrent station because the reg had been out for over a year dispite being on hold during that time.