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- Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:20 am
- Forum: Red Light Camera Ticket
- Topic: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7013
Re: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
Thank you all for your responses. I do believe that everyone is trying to help and I sincerely appreciate it. I was just trying to understand how I might best proceed in the case of an absolute liability offence, which as I have learned from this forum, is what I am dealing with. I will be trying to speak to the prosecutor and get a reduction to my ticket. However, in the off chance that he/she won't play ball I felt that I needed to be prepared with a backup plan. I will say one last thing however, and that is that regardless of speed slamming the brakes on in icy conditions is a good way to ...
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 5:15 pm
- Forum: Red Light Camera Ticket
- Topic: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7013
Re: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
I have another question. Is there any chance that I could make a defence of necessity in this instance? i.e. Had I stopped suddenly and skidded I would have possibly hit a nearby pedestrian? Therefore, it was necessary for me to proceed through the intersection? I realize that in order to mount this defence there must be no reasonable legal alternative to what I did, which in this case would have been stopping. However, as I stated above, stopping in the space I had, given the conditions, would have been impossible. I don't mean to belabour the point. I understand that they will ask why I wasn...
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 12:44 pm
- Forum: Red Light Camera Ticket
- Topic: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7013
Re: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
Thank you so much for your responses. I appreciate the advice a lot. I am in court tomorrow and plan on telling my story. Hopefully I can get a reduced fine. Is there any way I can speak to the prosecutor today or before the trial and see if they would be willing to be lenient in this instance?
- Mon Jul 14, 2014 9:11 am
- Forum: Red Light Camera Ticket
- Topic: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7013
Re: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
Thanks for your comments. I have a possible response that I'd like you to consider. The time of the amber light was 3 seconds at the intersection. A simple calculation based on my speed and position at the time of the photo puts my car at 39 metres away from the entrance to the intersection at the time the light turned amber. The safe stopping distance using a thinking time of 1.5 seconds, dry roads and my speed puts the vehicle stopping distance at approximately 31 metres (the mass of the vehicle was not included in the calculation and I used an online calculator.) As you can see this is not ...
- Sun Jul 13, 2014 6:45 pm
- Forum: Red Light Camera Ticket
- Topic: RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7013
RLC Ticket in Ottawa - Very Snowy Day!
Hi, I'm new here. There is some very interesting reading in this forum. As you'd expect I got a red light camera ticket back in the winter, January 5, to be exact. The weather at the time was extremely snowy. There is snow and ice all over the roads and my car in the photos. It is clearly very slippery. I was photographed at the white line entering the intersection 0.2 seconds after the light had turned. In fact, the average human reaction time is slightly more than this. I would literally have been incapable of braking upon seeing the light turn. Anyway, the photos are clear and I don't think...