Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Agree with Decatur. While a lot of people get bent around the axle about speed, the reality is that "going too fast" is subjective. She'd need a collision reconstructionist to prove that you were, indeed, going too fast in some sort of quantifiable way. Sounds like she's 100% at fault.

Well from the photograph it looks like the Subaru is at fault and should've been charged with something. You can't rip down a turning lane to pass stopped traffic, just like you said.

It used to be that police had no way of knowing if the vehicle was insured or not, except for the presentation of the slip. As Stanton says, they are in the process of creating the centralized database and giving all police access to it (should've been done a LONG time ago). In a lot of US states, police can run the licence plate # and it will tell ...

A summons cannot be avoided. They don't go away or expire. They'll find you sooner or later.

Contact the police, get the summons, and get proof that the vehicle was insured under someone else's name - and that the insurance was valid at the time. You'll have to show that to the Prosecutor in order for them to withdraw the charge.

$2500 fine and a 30 day suspension sounds fairly "normal" for this sort of offence.

Also in many other countries, .05 is what will lead to criminal sanctions. Since the provinces couldn't change the Criminal Code, they simply put in administrative penalties for .05. British Columbia went too far with their escalating sanctions, and part of their law got struck down by the courts.

Sounds, indeed, like the officer knocked the charge down to Disobey Lane Light instead of Red Light - Fail To Stop.

1. You don't need to prove the witness was at the scene if he testifies. The accident report is not proof of his presence - his testimony is.
2. Your testimony plus that of the witness. You then would point out that you were confronted with the unexpected, illegal actions of a motorist driving where he wasn't supposed to. That might help you with ...

Now since I caused the accident, this 'friend' is urging that I pay.

It's his vehicle. It's his responsibility to ensure that the vehicle has insurance. I'm going to guess that he was driving the vehicle without insurance and would continue to do so. The only way I'd fault you is if he said "oh by the way it doesn't have insurance" before you ...

Section 62 (1) of the Highway Traffic Act: The lights facing to the front have to be amber or white only.

Did they actually CANCEL your licence (third occurrence resulting in a suspension) or did it just expire?

If that's the case, you have to serve the full waiting periods according to MTO. But, visit a DriveTest centre and see what they say.

matt123 wrote:Compared to Detroit Windsor is a jewel.

Lived in both places... and that's an understatement.

"manwithaplan" pretty much covered everything I was going to say before I could jump in.

I also disagree with your statement that drivers in Toronto love to drive fast, I've found the opposite to be true, the majority of people on the GTA's express ways and city streets seem content to dawdle along 10-20 km/h below the speed limit.


Well ...

If speed governors aren't the answer to slow vehicles down WHAT IS?


Why do we need to slow everyone down?

Speed governors would only have an effect on our fastest roads, which are already our safest. Our fatality rate is falling and it continues to fall. Other countries are raising their freeway/motorway limits and seeing their fatalities and ...

This has nothing to do with traffic or driving.

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