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Hi. I just registered. My friend who found this website and also joined recently is actually why I joined. I'm helping her out from her car accident this past Tues.

I'm in Kingston.....uh...lol

Welcome to the Forum!

Nice to have you aboard.

Thank you. I hope I can generate some intriging and thought provoking posts...

Hello everyone i am new to this forum also had a few questions about a ticket that i received roughly a month ago so figured i would sign up. It is in the "General Talk" section of your site. Also i am living near Hamilton, Ontario. Any help or information any of you can give me on the subject it would be GREAT. Please post your comments and info thanks the trial date is coming up so any helpful hints or advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time bye for now.

Well since I don't want to get banned for not posting,

Hi! Great idea for a site.

Welcome to the forum Zeeman28a!

Feel free to start a discussion and reply to other members posts.

Happy postings

Hi ALL!!

Great forum.....thanks for invite....Reflections!

Yes, as my name implies I am a police officer. I have 11yrs experience, with the last 8 yrs in traffic enforcement.

I will not offer legal advice. As everyone else, I have my opinions on things, and will try at times to give a thought from the other side. I will not comment on this officer did this or that, I was not there so will not judge, that is what court is for.

As Reflections and Bookm can attest, I do listen and try to understand other sides of the coin, like everyone should.

At the end of the day, I have a job to do and will do it to the best of my abilities.

Cheers,

The Friendly Neighbourhood Bear!

Welcome, Mr Bear, I see your signature changed.

As for me, I just have an interest in law for the every guy. I am not a lawyer but I can certainly help point people in the right direction.

Welcome to the forum hwybear!

Thanks for taking the time out of your daily job and giving your opinions.

Hi All,

Thanks for hosting/moderating a informative site such as this!

Great work !

Hello BelSlySTi,

Welcome to the Forum!

Welcome to the forum, BelSlySTi!

Nice to have you aboard

Hello everyone. Good site. Just needs some more traffic to be a really great site ... ugh, bad pun I know!

I am not a reckless driver, but would have to say a bit aggressive. I don't weave in and out, but I do get my speed up there every now and again. And, yes, I "push" those slow left laners out of the way. Sorry if that was you.

I get about 1 ticket a year, or 2 every three, and have fought, and won, every one of them.

Looking for some good posts and hopefully, I'll be able offer my traffic court experience to some of you.

synergy wrote:

I "push" those slow left laners out of the way.

Um, I believe the correct term is "NERVE" 'em out of the way

Hello Synergy,

Welcome to OHTA.ca!

We are still working on increasing traffic and hopefully in time more interested people will sign up!

Also, if you have any suggestions to improve the site, please feel free to send me a PM.

Admin

Hello. Great site. Feel free to edit or delete my messages if need be.

Hopefully we won't have to

In my view, you have too many thread stickied. You should have no more than 2 threads pinned, the others should float like all other threads. This way the popular threads stay at the very top of this section of the board.

Just a suggestion, though.

Hello everyone! This is a great site. I've been really impressed with all of the information here. Keep up the good work!

I've got a keen interest in traffic law and road safety. That's partly because I'm in the process of slowly writing a book about driving (talking about local driving habits, weird incidents, traffic laws, driving smarter, etc.) Most of it will deal with driving around the GTA. If anyone has any suggestions/comments/ideas/input, let me know! It's still a work in progress.

Also, on a non-HTA topic, if anyone has any questions about airlines, aviation or flying, you can also PM me and I'll do my best to respond.

Hey Everyone, this really does look like a great site. I've spent the last hour at work looking over these cases and things.

I guess i just found you guys by trying to research my own problem, which i'll post in general help. Thanks in advandce for the help, and thanks for creating a site like this!

Hello M,

Welcome to OHTA.ca.

Hi all,

First time on any forum, but I have spent a few hours today reading the very helpful information available here. I was ticketed two weeks ago (details coming soon) and found this site by seeking information on the validity of the ticket and resources needed in fighting it. I think I have found a place with mature and insightful advice... thanks to those who have built and run this site.

Welcome...

think you need a new avatar...

Welcome aboard Mr. Heavyfoot!

thanks for the welcome and the avatar suggestion... maybe this one might be better.. yee haw!

Although Mr.Heavyfoot does not promote breaking the rules...

And maybe you can show me how to post the pics up. Having a hard time figuring it out.

Mr. Heavyfoot wrote:

And maybe you can show me how to post the pics up. Having a hard time figuring it out.

To have your picture show in posts (which I fixed for you above), do the following two steps:

1. Use BBCode enabled (this is by defualt, unless 'Disable BBCode in this post' option is checked)

2. Use the BBcode

 [img] http://example.com/your-picture.jpg [/img] 

The number "8" represents a emoticon. Each tim you cite the number 8 in a provison the emoticon appears instead of the number.

You should remove that emoticon or change it so it's not represented by the number 8.

lawmen wrote:

The number "8" represents a emoticon. Each tim you cite the number 8 in a provison the emoticon appears instead of the number.

You should remove that emoticon or change it so it's not represented by the number 8.

These are standard emoticons. If you want to disable smilies in posts then check the option "Disable Smilies in this post".

And the number "8" by itself is not a smiley.

This would make a smiley:

8)

which would look like this

Just remember if you want to disable smilies in posts make sure to check the "Disable Smilies in this post" check box.

Thanks for the info.

Here's a pic to try it out. The mercedes gravity car