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Yep, actually Stanton is correct - as usual. "Vehicle owner.". My bad. Either way, any automobile driven on public roads needs insurance, no matter who owns it.

Benjamin Button, I understand what you wrote. It is just wrong. The government can, and will, seize unregistered vehicles as well as those that are registered. Same thing with firearms, etc.

The word register does not mean to give ownership to the Crown, either. Not in Canada, anyway.

Failing to register your vehicle won't stop the government ...

I won't lock the thread just so that I can answer this:

The reason they can impound a car is because the car becomes the property of the Ministry the minute you register it. Anything that is registered belongs to the Crown I believe.

That's not correct. Actually, it's the exact opposite: You're telling the government that YOU own the car. The ...

It's actually the Compulsory Automobile Insurance Act (CAIA).

Whoever is the registered owner is required to have the insurance. If you have a leased vehicle, that means you have to get the insurance, if that's what you're asking.

Not really. The suspension and the expiry of the licence both would (in a legal sense) bar the owner from driving, but one doesn't cancel the other. For example, there are two different offences: Drive Suspended and Drive With No Licence. Drive Suspended is more serious - either you're under a court-ordered or administrative suspension (e.g. unpaid ...

Don't they have to show a by-law proving that the speed limit is 40km/h to convict you?

Nope. The 40 km/h sign is "prima facie" evidence of the existence of the by-law. This used to be a tactic that had some success (usually for "disobey sign" tickets) but it hasn't really worked very well recently, at least as far as I know.

If you can show ...

I'm going to assume by "in an emergency" you meant something life-threatening, yes?

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This is one of the reasons why the "slow down and move over" law was implemented in Ontario. The officer was stationary, IN his vehicle with a transport truck stopped in front of him, and he still got rammed.

Good news is, it looks like he'll be okay.

First thing to do is get the fines paid off. Contact MTO (Driver Improvement Office) as that is a good place to start, or the court house. They should be able to start steering you in the right direction. He'll have to pay the fines, plus a licence reinstatement fee of $150. He may have to apply for a new licence due to the fact that its validity ...

Driving without a licence can get you arrested... although... my understanding is that the usual penalty is 1000 Rand or so. (About $150.)

My understanding of the structures with the purplish lights is that they are used for traffic surveillance as opposed to speed enforcement... but I could be wrong. The Johannesburg Metro Police Department sets ...

If I'm to understand this correctly... did you get the original ticket in July of 2010?

If so, the time from July of 2010 to February of 2011, and from November 2011 until April 24, 2012, all count as "delay." That seems like a 12-month total delay that is attributed to the system and the Prosecutor's office. You might want to think about filing ...

Agree with Stanton. A left turn into a parking lot is not a U-turn. If you turn around in the parking lot and turn right on to the roadway, it's still not a U-turn. The U-turn has to occur on the highway (public road)... which, you didn't do, from the sounds of it. You made a left turn on the highway but that's it.

If you submit a disclosure request at the Prosecutor's office at the courthouse, you're supposed to submit two copies. They take one, and stamp the other as "received" and hand it back to you. If they hand the disclosure to you, well, then you have it and that's that.

If you did not get disclosure, then, in your case, I'd argue that it is ...

I'm going to have to side with mnstrcck.

CanLII does provide many cases where people are found not guilty because they had a clear, articulate recollection of the facts. Most JPs are aware that court cases are not a "credibility contest," and that the Supreme Court has said that if a defendant's testimony is believable, they should be believed ...

Thanks admin! South Africa was incredibly beautiful... I also took a lot of other videos that I put up on YouTube.

Makes you love the HTA after driving there doesnt it!? I have also driven in some other countries and it kinda makes you think...


I agree... definitely a lot of places where the driving is a lot worse than here... although, to be ...

I'm usually not a betting man, but I'd bet good money that your co-worker will have his charges dropped or will win at trial. I would advise against a plea-bargain, particularly since he has documentation, signed by the victim no less, that she was NOT injured. He stopped, he checked on her, he did his due diligence - just like Stanton said. I ...

Pretty much, although they will flag down drivers and check their licence status periodically. Oh that's another thing - South Africa is chock-full of unlicenced drivers.

That said, in all fairness to the South African Police Service and the other police agencies across the country, they've got higher priorities to tackle with limited resources.

In late January/early February I was in South Africa. Incredible place, lots to do... you can even go dive with Great White Sharks or, for an even more thrilling and scary experience, drive on their roads. Cape Town was pretty civilized but the rest of the country...

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Our driver in ...

The insurance adjuster will get all of the relevant information. I wouldn't worry too much about the officer's failure to hand it over. They'll track down the York Regional Police's underwriters and deal with them.

Its not a BS charge as there has been many officers that have lost their lives as a result of this.

Usually when people state that the "failure to slow down or move over" is a BS charge, or a "cash grab," I use this analogy:

Police/firefighters/EMS etc are working on the highway, so they are "at work." Would you like someone driving 80 km/h (or ...

Did you get summoned to court or is it a Provincial Offences Notice (part I)? The total payable should be $490, set fine of $400. If he wrote a set fine of $265 with a total payable of $325, you have a fatal error on your ticket, my friend... but only if it is a Part I notice and not a Summons.

(A) Even if I have the red light, and the oncoming traffic (from either side) has the green?

Correct. Lengthy explanation to follow:

My driving instructor if I correctly remembered told me that blocking the intersection while under a green, going in one way-direction was not permitted. (I guess not then. . .)


You cannot drive straight ...

Well that's odd... I'd say that the stay should've been granted right then and there... but I agree with iFly55.

1) Officer wrote my last against the space for "first name" and my first name below it. And its not separated by any comma
2) He misspelled my first name and did some overwriting to make it up.

Those two issues are not fatal errors. The name does not need to be separated by a comma. Some overwriting isn't a fatal error either, at least in this ...

So insurance says because of the incident report we are 100 percent at fault, if we can prove that we were pushed will that change in the eyes of the insurance company?

Yes. It's a completely different scenario according to the Fault Determination Rules, which the insurance companies use to determine who is "at fault."

Wouldn't the fact that ...

If the officer did not file the ticket within the required time, you are home free.

Well that explains the careless driving charge...

It does make a difference. If you got hit first and got slammed into the vehicle in front of you, that's a completely different situation for insurance purposes. You could dispute it, but it will take some time. The question is, how did they figure that you were the first one to cause an impact?

1. You will get two convictions on your record.

2. Yes to both questions.

3. Fail to stop for amber... it depends on how well you can testify in court, how well you prepare your defence, etc. Usually if a person gets up and makes a convincing case that they were unable to safely stop their vehicle, took their foot off the gas, checked all ways ...

MTO probably won't inform the insurance company.

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