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We've had some history with the police in my town..

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We have a steady police presence of 5 - 10 officers in the town at any given time.

Long story short I exercised my right to not talk to the police (I watch them beat the *EDIT* outta my brother and a…

HOV Lanes

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Just wondering what you guys think of those HOV lanes.

Sure these lanes are faster then usual but i think they present a ton of problems, now the first thing i want to clear up is often we say speed is dangerous. Okay i can believe that depending on the context and situation its used in. But i think…

Use of Headlights

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I heard somewhere that flashing your lights (i.e. clicking your high beams on and off) to warm drivers in the opposite direction of a speed trap is a violation of the highway traffic act.

Is this true ?

I was watching motoring 200X and they spoke about this, and accorinding to them, it is NOT illegal…

Hit by a drunk and I don't have insurance

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Mid July 2012 I was hit at 6pm by a drunk driver. That's when my hubby decided to tell me that he didn't take care of the insurance as he was supposed to. So, I got charged with driving without insurance. Car is in my name.

Inuries were minor - all of us had aches/pains, hubby had seatbelt burn…

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Traffic Offences Outside Ontario bad10r

Hello I'd like to start by saying what a great site this is!

Back on July 31 2011 me and 7 other friends received speeding tickets for 148km in a 100km zone on motocycles. I received my disclosure on March 2nd and court is on March 14. which isnt alot of time to prepare :roll:

some facts of the case

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failure to surrender insurance card

Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act kwigle

Just wondering what this incident means...........

My wife got caught not making a full stop - no contest.

However, also got a "ticket" for failure to surrender card - but she did but it was expired.

She found the good card after that mistake and gave it to the officer.

However she still got a "ticket"…

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Exceeding the speed limit by 16 to 29 km/h demoman

I got a speeding ticket doing 75 in a 50 zone. There where vehicles all around my vehicle doing about the same speed. The road was 2 lanes in one direction and 2 lanes in the other direction. There was a vehicle beside mine, another behind that vehicle and a vehicle behind me, all moving above the…

Disobey Sign - 182(2) tonight in this snowy weather

Failing to obey signs Jeffyjaixx

Hi all,

Unfortunately I got a "Disobey Sign" ticket tonight in this weather for turning left at a no left turn intersection (Greenwood turning left onto O'Connor) and my question is if it is possible to fight this ticket successfully due to a variety of reasons.

First of all, since visibility was…

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Follow too closely on an umarked cop car

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Follow too closely on an umarked cop car

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tonight i got caught riding up on an umarked cop car on highway 404. got 3 tickets following too closely, 125 in 100 zone and fail to have insurance card. the insurance one im not worried about because i just didn't have my most recent card in the car. i had an expired one that just expired. any ideas what to do about the other 2 tickets?

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Re: Follow too closely on an umarked cop car

I'd certainly talk with the Crown about a plea deal, hopefully get one or more of the charges dropped in exchange for a plea. Just FYI, having a valid insurance card now isn't really relevant in Court, since the charge is for not having it at the time of the stop.

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