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Yes, you always want to challenge the evidence of the officer if you go to trial.

What TC is saying is that there is a POSSIBILITY that the prosecutor MIGHT, if he is vindictive/spiteful/whatever, withdraw the charge and put it back up to 146 km/h. That is not that common, though. Sometimes they will, but more than often they will not.

No excuse ...

I'm concerned as to why the Cst. Donnelley did not say anything to Tapp while he was allegedly driving an OPP cruiser at 180 km/h on a dark country road (lots of wildlife), then turned him in SIX DAYS later. If 180 km/h is really that dangerous, she should have said something right then and there. Same concept applies to my line of work: Someone's ...

Make sure that you send your request for disclosure via registered mail or courier, that way they can't claim that you didn't make the request. Did they offer a First Attendance meeting or did it just go right to trial?

To get a good idea of how to fight the ticket yourself, go to www.ticketcombat.com. This is a website created by another regular poster. Lots of good info there.

Main thing is to get disclosure so you can see the Crown's evidence against you. If you want to save the demerit points, you can always plead down to 15 km/h over, if the Prosecutor ...

Latest news, I just called to my home insurance company and spoke to a clerk there, they are going to write a check to me so I can pay to that car driver a full amount...


Huh? Now I'm confused. Lawsuit hasn't gone forward yet but they already want to pay it out? :?

are you talking about my premium or his premium?

Your premiums. They're ...

need not equal must!


Lawmen is right, the driver has to report it. This is from the Insurance Act of Ontario:

Notice of accident

258.1 (1) If an automobile insured under a contract is involved in an incident that is required to be reported to the police under the Highway Traffic Act or in respect of which the insured intends to make a claim ...

Some bike paths in Toronto have speed limits, such as the path through Wilket Creek Park, which is 20 km/h. A sign is posted. As for sidewalks, I don't know.

The by-law permitting smaller bikes on the sidewalk is to allow children to ride bikes without having to mix it up with Toronto's notoriously inattentive, aggressive, pig-headed motorists ...

I once actually saw a radio-controlled model airplane being flown on airport property zoom up and nail the wing of a sailplane coming in to land. Extensive damage to sailplane, model airplane totalled, no injuries, angry pilot. That was in Colorado and I don't know the outcome of the legal case, if there was one, but I've always thought that ...

scary part - 6 officers hit within the last year while parked on the shoulder with lights flashing

Slowing down/moving over is just common sense when driving. It should be an automatic response by everyone on the road, and not just because the law requires it.

I drive the 401 regularly, including through "Bear Country." If I see a stopped ...

This means that probably that car driver's insurance company did their own investigation and found that he is guilty in spite of the absence of any police charges. So he probably was told that he will must pay his deductable!


Thought so. What you said earlier now makes the whole scenario make sense: Since your son's bike has tires of 24 inches ...

I used to be in favor of banning cell phones while driving but I just don't trust this government to write fair and balanced legislation.

Queen's Park is built on the site of a former insane asylum. Coincidence?

Don't drink and then drive a Zamboni... or anything else for that matter...

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story ... 3c3d9cca81

All of them miss the most important point – when you are behind the wheel, you are there for one reason only – to move the vehicle and its contents from point A to point B without damage to vehicle, contents, other vehicles and their contents and other peoples lives or property.

You have to wonder why it has gotten to the point where people have ...

What mechanisms we as a citizens have to fight improper police decisions other then the filing an official complain to police?

If you mean by not filing a complaint to the police directly, and instead filing a complaint to an independent agency that would investigate it, this may be helpful:

www.occps.ca

(Ontario Civilian Commission on Police ...

rigjockey wrote:If I go to court and negotiate to pay the full fine but get the points dropped, does it still show up on my abstract and CVOR ?

Yes, unfortunately.

I had purchased insurance with the car rental which should make proving that I had insurance pretty easy. I believe I was more concerned with whether the JoP would be more interested in whether or not I actually handed him the piece of paper to prove that I was insured.


Oh, okay... I mis-read your original post, sorry. Thought the cop got you ...

If the officer was looking for a "lower speed sign" on the ramp, meaning one with black lettering on a yellow background, that is NOT enforceable as a speed limit, it is an advisory speed only. If he ticketed you for exceeding that speed, the charge would be thrown out. Street racing charges?! Good God!! Another reason to get this law struck down ...

Police escort?! I'm assuming that the "No trucks 7AM to 7PM" has the intent behind it of "noise abatement," aka keeping it quiet for residents. I wonder what good the cop thought a police escort would do? And threatening to write a ticket for every sign you passed??? :shock:

Photographs of the route might help with this as evidence of "defence of ...

This group of CWD contestants seems worse than any of the others. I mean, drinking while driving and intentionally running red lights and STOP signs; racing another contestant on the way to the filming site, not to mention ON CAMERA; the "Wobble"; being unable to change lanes; looking everywhere but the road; driving into the oncoming traffic lane ...

Hello everyone! This is a great site. I've been really impressed with all of the information here. Keep up the good work! :D

I've got a keen interest in traffic law and road safety. That's partly because I'm in the process of slowly writing a book about driving (talking about local driving habits, weird incidents, traffic laws, driving smarter ...

Just a couple of thoughts, as far as speed tolerance. Here in Toronto, up until very recently, OPP wouldn't stop you unless you were going over 130, sometimes considerably faster. The ones who patrol the 416 start pulling drivers over at 125 km/h.

Toronto Police, unless it was Traffic Services, usually gave drivers 25-30 over. Traffic Services ...

Thanks, hwybear & ticketcombat. This info is much appreciated.

Nothing says "romance" like a set of winter tires

Seriously, congratulations on your pending nuptials.

Thanks!

This isn't entirely HTA related, but here's a little background. For the winter, I'm thinking of buying snow tires for my fiancee (wife as of Saturday) and for my car (2007 Honda Civic). She has a 2007 Saturn Ion. Currently we only have all-season radials. Any recommendations or experiences with different brands or types?

When I was living in ...

That was an interesting read.

Hopefully soon the street racing law will be found insonsistent with s 11(d) of the Charter (not s. 7). Until it is struck down, it is still in effect.

That sums it up nicely. The impoundment and other actions may be unconstitutional, but the the courts will decide that, and decide if Ontario must pay restitution ...

Thank god I don't work the GTR area.....the mentality of a lot of drivers is just whacked.


This could get a long thread going, speaking of GTA drivers...

-- the left lane is for PASSING, not for driving under the speed limit with 500 cars stacked up behind you
-- the shoulder is not a lane
-- the sidewalk is ALSO not a lane :shock:
-- don't ...

There's also Cairo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKap3KjsEmY

Bangkok is almost as bad.

Yes I did, they asked me to send them the plaintiff claim and they will do somthing about it, I do not know what...


There's a good chance that your insurance company would consider itself "on the hook" for the lawsuit payout that the driver might (but probably won't) get. So chances are they'll send their legal department (normally staffed by ...

Dang, that was something else.

Something about the insurance company's response does not add up. Insurance companies are supposed to assess fault and payouts based on the Insurance Act of Ontario, not the Highway Traffic Act. The fact that the driver says that his insurance company is using a "fail to remain" charge as the basis for determining that your son (or you) has to pay ...

If it's obvious that I am going to be passed (YES, it happens!)

Passed by what? A CF-18 on a low-altitude navigation exercise?