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Sorry to hear it didn't go as planned. Did you get 129 or 119? If you got 119, your insurance company, depending on who they are, won't hit you with a huge increase. They might not increase your premiums at all. Getting 10 km/h knocked off the charge also saved you a little bit of money in the short run, and may have saved you from an insurance ...

If the officer does not show up, the Crown essentially has no evidence. They have no witness, really nothing. So yes, ask for it to be dismissed.

Just to verify... in your post above you said that you selected that you do not want to challenge the officer but then you got a notice saying that "this is to confirm that you want to challenge the ...

This video kinda shows what can happen:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlKdCXOm ... ted&search

25% of fatal accidents in Toronto, and about 18% province-wide, happen because someone runs a red light. 0.12% in Ontario are due to street racing. 7% province-wide are due to "excessive speed."

I think that running a red light should be six demerit points, a $1000 fine and a seven-day licence suspension for the first offence. Second offence ...

If you ignore the ticket, you get convicted. I'm assuming that you want the easiest way of beating this charge. The appeals process is a long and lengthy one with no guarantee of success.

The clock is ticking on the charge, if you haven't decided to fight it yet. The "right lane exits" SIGN, if it was in Toronto, has to be bilingual. If the SIGN ...

After your daughter has sent in the ticket with the "not guilty" part checked off, get a trial date set and make sure to request disclosure from the Crown to see the evidence that the officer has regarding the speeding charge. No radar? Okay, so he might've paced her after he turned and followed her. Is the speedometer of the cruiser calibrated ...

Yes, select the trial option. I think you can fairly easily prove that the streets named do not exist, but that probably won't be enough to quash the ticket. Which sign were you ticketed for disobeying? Was it a "right lane exits" sign?

I've never heard of this... is this legit?

Here's a link to the French Language Services Act website.

http://www.ofa.gov.on.ca/english/FLSA.html

And here is the actual law itself. Long read, but you can decide for yourself if it applies or not.

http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90f32_e.htm

Don't ignore a ticket ...

Demerit points for the offence won't be on the ticket. If you do not respond to the ticket, you will be deemed not to dispute it, and a conviction will automatically be entered against you. If you choose to fight it, use advice from the following website:

www.ticketcombat.com

If you're seeking a paralegal, shop around for help. Some will go all ...

Why could Tim Mulcahy not see that?

I dunno. Tyler Mulcahy's insurance should've been astronomical based on his age and traffic convictions, so it's not like he could've hid it from his dad. Tim Mulcahy didn't have the guts to stand up to his son, for whatever reason it may have been...

MSP have a tolerance of about 7 to just over 10 MPH, it seems, except in construction zones (about 3 MPH when workers are present). They also stop drivers who are going too slow. Sheriff's Deputies also patrol I-94 and they generally give up to 10 MPH over the limit. The Taylor Police, who always park a cruiser on I-94 just east of Telegraph Road ...

I belive most (if not all) of Autobahn has the speed limit of "No less than (something)". The speed limit is also adjusted via overhead displays depending on weather, traffic conditions, and there are different speeds for each lane.


Some of it does, yes. The Berlin Ring had variable maximum and minimum speeds, as I recall. There is a ...

I lived in Detroit for two years. In that time I drove extensively in the state of Michigan. On average Michigan drivers go 10-20 km/h slower than their counterparts in Ontario. I used to drive regularly between Detroit and Battle Creek on I-94 and Detroit and Saginaw on I-75. I'd usually, conditions/traffic permitting, go 80 MPH, which is 10 over ...

Looks like traffic enforcement is being heavily used as a revenue generator in Detroit. REALLY heavily used.

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar ... 1170333/-1

I'm in Detroit a lot. There's always a speed trap somewhere.

It may be worthwhile to investigate the effectiveness of limiting the hp of one's vehicle based on driving experience regardless of age.

Personally I think the laws were fine just the way they are, but you raise an interesting point, maybe a revision to graduated licensing?

It would've been better if the kid's car had been taken away when he ...

I also believe that a change that comes from the inside usually works better.

Maybe the other officers denounced them but we aren't hearing about it. Then again maybe I'm being too optimistic as well. Everyone's had bad apples where they work, as Bear said. One well-publicized, very embarassing incident for my company resulted in plenty of my co ...

Common sense isin't as common as it used to be.

I'm starting to become convinced that evolution is actually moving in reverse.

Hopefully they've tested the lidar units to ensure that they won't blind a driver who's being clocked.

Officer: "Why didn't you stop when I waved you over?"
Driver: "I was driving along and suddenly I couldn't see!!"

:shock:

The hand-held laser pointers, the type that've been directed at aircraft, can do a lot of damage. Last winter we were ...

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Close friend of mine used to be an Ottawa cop. Responds to a single-vehicle crash on St. Laurent Boulevard, car's planted into a traffic light and knocked it down. Dry road, good visibility, witnesses say the guy just suddenly dove off the road and nailed the pole.

Turns out the driver was... um... engaged in the act of "pleasuring ...

This is the MOVE LEFT


Are they teaching the "right-side" approach at the OPC now? I noticed the officer did that in the video.

People who don't know how to respond to emergency vehicles should not have a driver's licence. It's not rocket science. Little story: A few weeks ago I was northbound on Victoria Park Avenue in Toronto, trying to turn ...

You know, maybe they should ban parents from buying souped-up cars for their kids. Maybe they should hold parents accountable when they don't take the keys away from their kids when they drive like Mulcahy's son. Reasonable? Not really, but to a certain extent that'd make more sense than these new laws.

Our local Police Inspector was going on about how great these new laws will be. I went to school with this inspector. At just 17 years old, he cruised the streets in an all black, big-block Nova with a modified 396cu.in. engine (a real street-sweeper!) and no graduated licensing of course.


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He obviously "forgot where he came from." One ...

I have an image......balls.......sling.........

I think the acronym BOHICA also applies.

Someone needs to challenge this in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Got that right. The sooner, the better.

However, I have sat on a lawnchair, under a bridge, between the steel guardrails, while using lidar during intercept programs.

That was you? Next time I'll wave.

It was more of a warning to show respect rather than antagonize someone you want to be your ally.

Always good advice.

I work as a Paramedic, thus spending many hours driving around town. I can tell you that drivers in their 30s, 40s, and 50s are quite problematic. They often do not wear their seatbelts, are uncooperative, lie about the event, which is obvious as their injuries are inconsistent with their stories. They are also, according to the latest statistics ...

I feel terrible for Mr. Mulcahy, having lost his child. It is an unimaginable grief for someone to bury a son or daughter. Mr. Mulcahy turned to the government and said "if the government had only banned drivers who do this stuff, he'd be alive." Of course we've now become known as "Bantario" so McGuinty was all over it.

Mulcahy was horrified at ...

The vagueness is such that it allows virtually anything you do while driving to be possibly considered an act of stunt driving or street racing. The type of irrevocable and unappealable consequences that can be imposed upon anyone, guilty or not, on the spot, is not justified in a free society.

So if the courts say one thing and the police say ...

A term of imprisonment can be attached to a strict liability offence. The US offfences are strict liability with attached prison time, while in Canada speeding is an absolute liability offence where a term of imprisonment attached to the offence violates s. 7 of the Charter.


My point was that US states are applying penalties, even some fairly ...

Apparantly there are thousands of them yet they refuse to post them. I wonder why...


Oh, I don't know, seizing someone's lawfully-owned property without recourse or appeal available as de-facto intended punishment is grossly unconstitutional (among other things)? Apparently violating your rights is okay if you exceed the posted speed limit in ...