Court confiscates car after repeat drug-driving offences

The Reykjavik District Court has sentenced a man to seven months in prison for four incidents of driving under the influence of amphetamine while disqualified, mbl.is reported. The court also ordered his car confiscated to the state treasury and upheld his lifetime driving ban.

The man admitted the offences, which took place in Reykjavik between November 2025 and May 2026. The judgment was issued last week.

Police stopped him on Hringbraut on November 15, 2025, and on Sæbraut 11 days later. On both occasions, he was disqualified from driving and considered unfit to drive safely because of amphetamine use.

On April 4, 2026, he drove on Njarðargata and Smáragata while disqualified and under the influence of amphetamine. Police stopped him again on May 10 as he drove on Njarðargata and Laufásvegur. He was still disqualified and under the influence of the drug. Police then seized his car.

The man has repeatedly been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. A court imposed a lifetime driving ban in October 2023, and in January 2026 he was again convicted of driving while disqualified and under the influence of drugs.

The first two offences in the latest case took place before the January judgment, so the court treated the punishment for them as an additional penalty to that sentence. It said this was the man’s fifth conviction for driving under the influence since turning 18 within the statutory repeat-offence period, and his second for driving while disqualified.

The court considered his clear admission of guilt in his favour but ruled that a seven-month prison sentence was appropriate and should not be suspended. He was also ordered to pay 861,086 Icelandic krónur in legal fees and other court costs.