Key legal question
Whether the administrative authority could depart from the criminal dismissal when assessing the traffic offence
Extracted holding
Yes. Because the criminal dismissal was based on the file rather than an adversarial oral trial, the authority could make its own legal assessment of the traffic-law violation.
Extracted reasoning
A criminal decision is not binding on the administrative authority. Departure is allowed where the penal authority did not itself take evidence or resolve all traffic-law questions.