Hello Folks, I have a couple of quick questions for you which I am hoping someone can help with the answers, so here we go. I currently deliver catered food to several daycares within the Niagara Region. I was on my regular scheduled delivery route and was traveling from once school to the next. Upon my last delivery, I shut the door and put my seat belt on but could only put it under my armpit as I found when I pulled away, it was caught in the door. My next scheduled route was several blocks away from the school and upon arrival at the next delivery, I was going to make the necessary adjustments to the seat belt to correct the problem. The unfortunate part is while traveling onto my next stop there was some officer's standing at the four way stop checking for seat belts as it was a seat belt blitz. The officer yelled at me to pull over and I did so and she waived my over to the other side of the road to tell me that I wasn't wearing a seat belt. Now according to the highway traffic act Section 106 Exception #6 subsection (c) it states that who is actually engaged in work which required him or her to alight from and re-enter the motor vehicle at frequent intervals and the motor vehicle does not travel at a speed of 40 km/hr is exempt from seat belt wearing. Would this apply in my case since I am approx. 300 meters away from the drop off point at the next school. For the record, I did not exceed 40km from my previous stop to the next stop before the seat belt blitz area. If anyone can provide any insight, that would be great... Thanks in advance, HQS
Hello Folks,
I have a couple of quick questions for you which I am hoping someone can help with the answers, so here we go.
I currently deliver catered food to several daycares within the Niagara Region. I was on my regular scheduled delivery route and was traveling from once school to the next. Upon my last delivery, I shut the door and put my seat belt on but could only put it under my armpit as I found when I pulled away, it was caught in the door. My next scheduled route was several blocks away from the school and upon arrival at the next delivery, I was going to make the necessary adjustments to the seat belt to correct the problem.
The unfortunate part is while traveling onto my next stop there was some officer's standing at the four way stop checking for seat belts as it was a seat belt blitz. The officer yelled at me to pull over and I did so and she waived my over to the other side of the road to tell me that I wasn't wearing a seat belt. Now according to the highway traffic act Section 106 Exception #6 subsection (c) it states that who is actually engaged in work which required him or her to alight from and re-enter the motor vehicle at frequent intervals and the motor vehicle does not travel at a speed of 40 km/hr is exempt from seat belt wearing.
Would this apply in my case since I am approx. 300 meters away from the drop off point at the next school. For the record, I did not exceed 40km from my previous stop to the next stop before the seat belt blitz area.
If anyone can provide any insight, that would be great...
I don't think you would be successful with this argument. The exemption is not for any delivery driver to claim that they don't go over 40 and thus don't have to wear their seat belt. It is intended to protect people who have professions where it is already established that they don't go over 40, like garbage men or postal delivery drivers. That being said, you could always try it and see what the JP thinks. But I would read the exemption more as "professions where you can't go over 40 and still do your job", like the examples I illustrated above. The fact that you claim you didn't go over 40 doesn't entitle you to the exemption. At least that's the way I interpret the section.
I don't think you would be successful with this argument. The exemption is not for any delivery driver to claim that they don't go over 40 and thus don't have to wear their seat belt. It is intended to protect people who have professions where it is already established that they don't go over 40, like garbage men or postal delivery drivers.
That being said, you could always try it and see what the JP thinks. But I would read the exemption more as "professions where you can't go over 40 and still do your job", like the examples I illustrated above. The fact that you claim you didn't go over 40 doesn't entitle you to the exemption.
i lost my license in an accident i had to due my exceeding amount of demerit points. i went to jail and made bail i was put on a curfew of 9am to 9pm stupidly enough i did not follow and i got pulled over for driving with a different cars license plates, no insurance, and violating my curfew... i…
I was charged for disobey sign (no left turn) in a winter noon time around Bay/Edward (the prosecutor/judge said it to be a Absolute liability offences but disobey sign is actually a strict liability offence, right? And I found this: For example, if you made an illegal left-turn where there were…
so got fined with 69km in a 50km, at bottom of hill...didn't even have foot on the gas. first ticket ever in over 10 years of driving. fine was 62$ and 3 points.
cop says take to court and get demerit points reduced. didn't even let me speak and walks away.
On my way to work today I got a 110 dollar ticket + 2 demerit points.
I was driving north on Bathurst and turned left onto a side street into a residential area before hitting the lights at Eglinton and Bathurst. I normally do this to avoid the big line up to turn left onto Eglinton.
On the 400 extension EB towards Barrie cops like to hide out under an over pass that is Ski Trails Rd. They tag people as the come over the crest of the hill and that is 900m from where this officer was standing.
I'm confused because I knew this, saw the cop, and checked my…
I was making a left hand legal turn on a green light, a driver came through the lane I was supposed to be going into ran the red and hit me head on as I was turning into my lane. When the officer came he was telling me that I was racing and driving recklessly because apparently there was reports of…
Today i got caught doing 115 in a 90 at Mayfield and 410 and what I have been reading is that this offence is 3 points. Seeing this is my first offence I'm unsure if the ticket is supposed to I lost 3 points or is that just automatic. Also should I go to fight it to drop the points and just pay the…
I was (recently) involved in a traffic accident where, due to icy road conditions, I slid into oncoming traffic while making a right turn, while they were coming towards me and stopping at a stop sign. This was a residential area and there's no way I was exceeding anything over 20KM/h on…
