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Not to pick on you guys, but especially around here during the week you don't see the officers that much. I am guessing alot are in court. But on sunday oh man youll see tons.


That's true everywhere in the GTA. Sunday is the "traffic enforcement day of the week." There are sporadic speed traps here and there on weekdays but they are not run as ...

Actually, NO ONE does traffic enforcement like the Ohio State Police. (Actually I guess it's the Ohio State Highway Patrol or something like that.) They ticket for as little as 2 MPH over the limit. They use aerial surveillance way more than the OPP. They go out in marked and unmarked cruisers and drive 1 MPH over the posted speed limit. Anyone who ...

That's why they call the area the "Canadian Ohio."

(Giving them the finger is optional!)


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gt0ro, did you happen to get the clerk's name? You could also try registered mail but I don't see any difference here between that and what ticketcombat suggested. If they continue to insist on additional details from you, well, that's not your problem and it's setting you up for an easy ...

For now, here's the generic advice. At least if you prepare to fight the ticket in court, you've got more options available to you. Send in the ticket pleading not guilty, request a trial, and make a disclosure request. By the way, how long did it take for the officer to catch you? Did you note him turning around in your rear-view mirror or did he ...

hwybear wrote:think a good one for you would be "FLY BY"

Reflections wrote:8 characters....hmmmmm, wosurplt

Why not start by charging normal rates -- then raise rates according to the driver's record?

Short answer: Because that would cost them $$$ in profits, as golfer0012 was saying.

The insurance companies try to predict how much money they'll have to pay out in claims per driver. They look at how much money, on average, driver "X" will cost them ...

That's great. Keeps your record clean and prevents an insurance increase. :)

And knowing R.I i assume his Civic would be Black?


Grey.

Ha i just though of a great license plate name to!

Hmm... that's tempting fate. Maybe I should get one that says: TICKETME. Actually my current plate is the generic four letters and three numbers format ...

And of course, there's our ongoing discussion about whether any of these "modern" devices are even being tested and used properly.


TC... should we open a second can of worms by bringing forward the argument that, thanks to the Cuthbertson ruling, speeding has effectively become a strict liability offence, and develop a due diligence defence ...

Oh ya that 07 civic with the pilot from Michigan.



Fortunately my driver record doesn't show that I lived in Michigan for two years. :D They also don't have access to Transport Canada's database, fortunately. However... the FAA's (US Federal Aviation Administration) has a public database... hmm... and I have both licenses... :shock:

I bet ...

It's pretty common here in Chile

You're in Chile? Nice. :D

For example, I did not know what Squids were.

My bad. Sorry about that. Should've explained somewhere in my original post.

Actually the Toronto Police indicated that they're concerned about "lane splitting" in this report last year on City TV:

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news ...

If he is found guilty, couldn't the victims of his falsified evidence sue the government or police force for compensation??



I'm going to say yes. They could sue for malicious prosecution. I think the Sergeant himself would probably be on the hook for some of it. Stay tuned, I guess. I know if I had my car seized under those circumstances I ...

Reflections wrote:That's because they're in the trees and have already attached a GPS device to your car..

Dang it, I'll have to train my dog to sniff those things out now. I guess that also explains why that car with the licence plate "IMPOUND U" has been following me all day...

Just be careful about it - in Toronto they've mistakenly been applying demerit points from bicycle offences to driver licences. Don't let them do it! If they do, call MTO and get it fixed. So yes, Plenderzoosh is right.

A plea-bargain to a municipal by-law infraction would be a good choice: Usually cheaper, no chance of any paperwork snafu with ...

All I'm asking for is advice on what I should do.

In cases where people pass a police cruiser, marked or unmarked, it usually is difficult to get it beaten in court. If the officer ticketed you for 102 in an 80 zone (I'm assuming that's what you did), you could try to plea-bargain to 95 in save demerit points and a little bit of cash.

A ...

I thought insurers only differentiated between the "major" and "minor" convictions.


Yes, for the most part. Some of them only count "moving" violations (unsafe vehicle/defective brakes wouldn't be one of them), though, and a few others (such as mine) have certain "minor" offences that, if you only have one or two of them, it results in no ...

Yeah and I think our members are more familiar with the HTA than the people who wrote it. :shock:

"And make sure you pay attention to the posts by that R.I. guy, he's sneaky".

:lol: That would be funny... or I could wake up and see 10 cruisers parked outside waiting for me to get into my car. "So you think you know the HTA, eh?" :shock: Then ...

That should instead say: "speeding x km/hr in an y km/hr-zone, where x < y"

Ah yes. :D

Okay I thought something seemed wrong with that being a fatal error anyway. It was on HWY 11, and the officer listed Severn Township, Simcoe County.

There are a couple of ways of going about this. Speeding tickets usually do not have too many tricks or ...

50 km/h speed limit, 40 km/h speed limit during school hours, days, marked or unmarked unit, LIDAR. Busy street, school crossing guards frequently ignored/honked at, speeding and excessive idiotic lane changes common in this area. Police enforcement is pervasive during the school year.

Speed limit 50 km/h, weekdays, 1 marked unit, LIDAR. Officer stands on a concrete island on the southbound side of the road in front of an apartment building with a curved shared in-and-out driveway connecting Avenue Road and Otter.

Added note: Toronto Police are getting sneaky in this area. Enforcement is now on both north and southbound lanes. Just north of the bridge, police officer hides behind a row of trees using LIDAR to track northbound vehicles. Marked scout car is parked behind the trees. Very difficult to spot.

He'd be Julian "the Volcano" Fantino.

True dat.

FWIW - not trying to answer for Bear here - I've seen OPP using LIDAR while stationary and parked either sideways or parallel to the road. Michigan State Police park behind pillars or on the top of on-ramps, crack the door or open the window and turn around so that they are tracking approaching traffic with LIDAR but the vehicle is pointed down the ...

The "speeding x km/h in an x km/h zone" would refer to an error by the officer in writing the ticket, as in: "Speeding 60 km/h in a 86 km/h zone." Well, an 86 km/h zone means that you can drive up to 86 km/h before you're speeding, and if the person was doing 60, then they're not breaking the law. In my example, the officer would've meant to have ...

On a semi-related note, yesterday evening I was northbound on the DVP approaching the 401. I was going 110, heading for the ramp to the westbound 401. A couple of squids tore past me and several other cars going about 150 km/h, cut across the bullnose between the ramps to the eastbound and westbound 401 (missed the crash barrier by 10 feet or so ...

Yes, what I'm saying is imagine how Julian Fantino would feel if his officers were subjected to an immediate, irrevocable punishment without any proof by another agency, so I picked the SIU. So imagine if they got called to a collision scene under that context: Well, I haven't done an investigation, there's nothing proven yet - so I'll issue an ...

If you fight the insurance card ticket, there is a possibility that the Crown, upon discovering that you were stopped initially for speeding, could file a motion to also charge you with speeding. In this case I'd recommend just paying the $65 ticket. As for insurance implications, there are only a select one or two companies that would care; the ...

What would really be painful is if the cruiser had a nicad battery that had a thermal runaway.

Well the defective brakes ticket doesn't carry demerit points unlike the follow too close.

Correct. Many insurance companies frown far more on the "follow too close" than defective brakes, particularly with no collision. Your insurer might just ignore it all together.

If I can manage to bargain down to a bylaw infraction of a similar fine ...