Hello All. Interesting one here. I was pulled over by a OPP in town after waiting at a red light with several other cars. He arrived at my window and said he pulled me over for not wearing a seat belt and could he see my DL, INS etc which I gave to him. Pink ins slip was out of date, but other than that everything was in order. He wrote me a seat belt ticket. Fast fwd a few weeks, I receive officer's notes from the crown and the officer writes; "I was parked in a parking lot and observed a tan coloured pickup in front of me at the red light. (Through the passenger window) I observed the seat belt buckle above the driver's left shoulder. I did not observe the seat belt across his chest. When I approached the vehicle, the driver was not wearing his seat belt. The driver was wearing a brown coat". I have viewed my pickup truck from the officer's vantage point and I can say with certainty that there is no way he could observe from 30 ft away, through my closed window, that I was not wearing my seat belt. I have taken pictures and can show this in court. Now, I understand the officer has the right to pull me over to check DL, INS, DUI etc but in his own words, the officer "was satisfied that everything was in order." Since, there is no way he pulled me over because he observed me unbuckled, yet he told me he did, is this not a illegal stop? If it was a legal stop to check docs, once everything was in order should he have not let me go? Is there a electronic device in the cruiser that tells him drivers are unbuckled? If there is, and THAT is why he made the stop, should he have not disclosed that instead of lying about the seeing the buckle? There were several vehicles waiting at this red light....does his cruiser tell him WHICH vehicle driver is unbuckled?
Hello All. Interesting one here.
I was pulled over by a OPP in town after waiting at a red light with several other cars. He arrived at my window and said he pulled me over for not wearing a seat belt and could he see my DL, INS etc which I gave to him. Pink ins slip was out of date, but other than that everything was in order. He wrote me a seat belt ticket.
Fast fwd a few weeks, I receive officer's notes from the crown and the officer writes; "I was parked in a parking lot and observed a tan coloured pickup in front of me at the red light. (Through the passenger window) I observed the seat belt buckle above the driver's left shoulder. I did not observe the seat belt across his chest. When I approached the vehicle, the driver was not wearing his seat belt. The driver was wearing a brown coat".
I have viewed my pickup truck from the officer's vantage point and I can say with certainty that there is no way he could observe from 30 ft away, through my closed window, that I was not wearing my seat belt. I have taken pictures and can show this in court. Now, I understand the officer has the right to pull me over to check DL, INS, DUI etc but in his own words, the officer "was satisfied that everything was in order." Since, there is no way he pulled me over because he observed me unbuckled, yet he told me he did, is this not a illegal stop? If it was a legal stop to check docs, once everything was in order should he have not let me go?
Is there a electronic device in the cruiser that tells him drivers are unbuckled? If there is, and THAT is why he made the stop, should he have not disclosed that instead of lying about the seeing the buckle? There were several vehicles waiting at this red light....does his cruiser tell him WHICH vehicle driver is unbuckled?
Ok, so today i was driving down steeles ave and i got pulled over, the officer approached me and got my license and pulled it up.
he came back and said my license is suspended :O i had no idea or else i wouldnt be driving at all.....the reason for the license suspension was unpaid fines....
Hi everyone, after 12 years of clean driving, I got my first ticket. I had stepped out to grab a bite and left my valid licence in my other pocket. I had an expired "valid photo ID" licence in my vehicle that I keep just in case I need photo ID. I gave the officer that one and I told him my valid…
My teenager was in an accident last Sept where another car was rear-ended.
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I was served with a Fail to Surrender Insurance Card (S3(1) of Compulsory Auto Insurance Act). He received it within the jurisdiction of Barrie POA. The trial is scheduled for November 14 2017.
I was stopped by Barrie OPP on my way back from a weekend up in Midland ON on June 28, 2017 and…
this is ALL I got in terms of notes. No record of calibration before or after.
my question is, should I send a second request for the officer's notes from the day? or can I run with this and press the point that he didn't test the unit before or after?
Friend of mine was stopped and asked to blow into alcohol test meter just because he said he had 2 drinks earlier in the night (like 4,5 hours before being stopped). He wasn't behaving erratic or driving out of line. The officer said he noted him to pull behind few parked cars and then…
Hello everyone I'm not sure if this is the right place to put it but I need some answers as I'm very scared and don't know what to do. Recently if got a Novice Driver B.A.C Above zero I am 23 years old and I'm pretty due to get my G class license in a couple of weeks. I understand that I was wrong…
