Dangerous driving

[C36M]

Hello, I share a 4 year old daughter with my ex partner. In the space of 8 months my ex partner has been caught speeding twice, going through a red light, and drink driving (these are all a few months apart). He has been on awareness courses, fined, and now he has lost his licence for 12 months.

He is listed on the local news website today (Sunday) that he has been banned from driving, but he was driving with our daughter in his car Friday evening. Do magistrates courts open on a weekend? If not he would have been driving whilst disqualified with our daughter in the car?

I’m so worried he isn’t going to learn from this ban, I’m going to be so on edge whenever he has her 😫 Not really sure where I’m going with this, just wanted to vent I think

Yikes.
Can anyone else collect dD

Report him to the police.

Stop letting him take her out until he builds your trust again

Thank you for your replies. So I called the court this morning and apparently he has been banned from driving since the 19th June and the incident happened in May. He has been driving our daughter around this whole time. I don’t want to report him and him end up in prison, but he drove after the euro final too when he had been drinking so he has not learnt from this

My ex turned up to collect our boys in a car 2 weeks ago, he was banned for 5 years & only recently was allowed to apply for his learners permit & is still doing lessons (in Ireland, he needs a fully licensed driver with him & must have l plates he had neither) our set up is court ordered & I wasn't sure if his licence was back (kind of knew it's impossible due to time frame but i can't accuse him) so i went to the guards explained the situation,gave them the details & they will be on the look out. If everything is above board we'll I was wrong but if not at least I've done what I can & I need to go back to court anyway so I'll raise it there too

there is Only 2 options put up with it or report it

I don’t want to report him and him end up in prison,
Surely if he is prison he won't be able to kill or seriously injure your daughter, or anyone else.

You need decent evidence. Get a ring door bell or something kind of CCTV, if he turns up in the car you will then have evidence.

He wouldn’t be taking my Dd out again . You will struggle without evidence if he fights it though .. so reporting it may be your only option.

So you'd rather he drink drives or drives dangerously with your child in the car than report him to the police? Give your head a wobble OP. He is not your priority here.

Not really necessary to be rude. I don’t think he’d drink drive with her. He is completely in the wrong but if he goes to prison my child would be heartbroken, so excuse me for being unsure

My niece was paralysed in an accident caused by her mum drink driving, they had planned to stay at a friend's, niece can't sleep is crying she doesn't want to stay (apparently) and they leave very late to go home and get into an accident.

I would take it very seriously, when you're drunk, you aren't thinking straight and one bad night or one argument or one whatever can cause you to do something stupid and ultimately the drunk person isn't usually the one that ends up paying for it.

@C36M his actions show you that he thinks he is above the law and always right. He does not believe that drinking driving is wrong or dangerous so he would not see the risk in putting your DD in the car and driving her when he was over the limit.
As he continues to drive when he is banned for drink driving shows you that he thinks the law is wrong and that he is safe.
So you must be the one to protect your daughter I have done it and it is very hard. He will be very angry, but you must do what you need to do to stop her being in a car with him. So it maybe delivering her to contact, restricting contact in a way that ensures she's not in a car with him.

He’s not thinking about the consequences for him and his daughter he’s thinking of himself and no one else.
This YouTube video shows what disqualified drink drivers are capable of

@DoAClassicCamel

That video is absolutely harrowing. What an absolutely incredible force to help bring that man to justice for the second time. It really hit home how many life's are affected by drink driving. That could be any one of us in that video.. and my reporting drink driving, we've all done our bit to slightly lessen the risk of it being one of us.
Anyone of us could've been Monika. OP please watch that video.

I reported my (ex) best friend for drunk driving. She got arrested and her license taken a few months after. We aren't friends anymore. She has 2 young children, lives rurally and used her car for her job. Did I gee guilty and worry? Absolutely not.

Drink driving is life threatening to anyone on the roads and paths. That comes above worried children when their parent is in prison. As a child would rather a parent in prison than a parent dead due to your ex ploughing into them and killing them. Do better OP and damn report him. This isn't about you or your children. This is about stopping him killing other people and children.