Key legal question
Whether an inner-city speeding excess of 18 km/h required a one-month license withdrawal or only a warning in light of the driver's prior warning and the applicable law.
Extracted holding
Under the applicable pre-amendment law, the new offence remained a light case; because more than one year had passed since the prior warning and no special aggravating circumstances were established, only a warning was justified.
Extracted reasoning
The Court followed its prior case law that an 18 km/h urban speed excess is objectively a light case. A renewed warning is generally excluded only if the new violation occurs within one year after the previous warning. The cantonal authority wrongly relied on the later two-year rule of the amended SVG; that stricter standard did not apply. No special circumstances justified treating the case as more serious.