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[J-53-2006] IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLE DISTRICT CAPPY, C.J., CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, BALDWIN, JJ.

MATTHEW STEVEN DRABIC,

: : Appellee : : v. : : COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, : DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, : BUREAU OF DRIVER LICENSING, : : Appellant : :

No. 152 MAP 2005

Appeal from the Order of the Commonwealth Court entered on September 9, 2005, at No. 738 CD 2005, which affirmed the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County, Civil Division, entered on March 10, 2005, at No. 04-5184-29-6. ARGUED: April 5, 2006

OPINION MADAME JUSTICE BALDWIN DECIDED: September 27, 2006

The issue presented in this case is whether collateral civil consequences of criminal acts, in this instance suspensions of operating privileges (i.e., driver's licenses), should be merged to accord with the merger of the underlying criminal convictions from which the collateral civil consequences flow. Although this is a question of first impression for this Court, the lower courts of this Commonwealth have merged such suspensions at least since the Commonwealth Court decided Zimmerman v. Commonwealth, 759 A.2d 953 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2000) (en banc), alloc. denied, 567 Pa. 753, 788 A.2d 382 (2001). We find that this is the result intended by the subject statute, 75 Pa.C.S.

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