Ontario Highway Traffic Act

We once owned a retail store, and sometimes there were thefts, but the Police told us to never touch or go after the alleged robbers, or we could face assault charges or other problems. They wanted us to simply call the police and they would handle it!

What kind of authority do you have under a citizen's arrest? My recollection is that a ...

Some officers will mistakenly charge you for producing "alternating flashes of light," which is reserved for emergency vehicles.

I don't know of any law prohibiting such an action during the day, but it is illegal in conditions where headlights are required - can't use high beams within 150 m of oncoming traffic.

The law doesn't require drivers do it at any cost, it only requires it to be done if it can be done safety.

Right. Taking Bondra's side of the story (and I have been in that circumstance before), I would slow down to ~20% below the limit and turn on my four-way flashers to let the officer know that I am aware of his vehicle. Never been bothered ...

Bondra12 was in the same lane to begin with, but moved into an adjacent lane to comply with the first scenario outlined in subsection (2). They then fell under the second scenario, being in an adjacent lane, and the law applies once again.

I also disagree about it being a money grab. It's about minimising risk to the officer - if room is available ...

You snipped out the important part:
(2) Upon approaching an emergency vehicle with its lamp producing intermittent flashes of red light that is stopped on a highway with two or more lanes of traffic on the same side of the highway as the side on which the emergency vehicle is stopped, the driver of a vehicle travelling in the same lane that the ...

The HTA can't apply to boating, can it? Thus wouldn't any suspension under the HTA mean nothing to a boater? They would have to amend some act that applies to the waters to make the PCOC invalid with a supended driver's licence. I'm guessing that would be done at the federal level, as the PCOC is (almost) Canada-wide.

Now I think your driver's ...

The definition of a 'motor vehicle' seems pretty inclusive to me. The "any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power" (to me) would include the motorised rollerblades and the gravity-driven bike.

The definition does not state that the vehicle must be solely powered by a means other than muscular power, just that it is ...

If it meets none of the specifications then I don't think it can be legally driven on a highway.

Got my estimate today: $701. That's just blending in the paint to the corner of the bumper, which doesn't involve the existing damage, so there's no need for me to pitch in. I might negotiate with the insurance company to have them repaint the entire bumper, and I can cover the prepwork costs in order to have a "perfect" job done.

The way I see it, any electric bicycle meeting the current definitions as a "power-assisted bicycle" falls under 473/06 (for now), which exempts it from "motor vehicle" status. Something outside of those definitions (e.g., modified to have a higher top speed) would no longer be subject to that regulation and the exemptions, and thus get bumped up ...

Under O.REG 473/06, an electric bicycle ("power-assisted bicycle") is no longer a "motor assisted bicycle" or even a "motor vehicle" with regards to riding it. However that bike must be limited to 32 km/h, or else I think it gets bumped up to "motor assisted bicycle" and "motor vehicle" status.

A power-assisted bicycle thus requires no insurance ...

I agree with cruzmisl. No one was protected or safeguarded by seizing that vehicle. 49 km/h over has serious enough consequences.

But that shouldn't matter once the law and the consequences are in the books. I don't know the whole story, but assuming the deputy fire chief had no good reason to be going that fast, then the consequences are set ...

Heh, well good thing it happened in Toronto then. :D

Since the bumper had been scratched up before, I'm going to see if the insurance company and the body shop will let me "pitch in" and do the labour on the bumper. The shop will have to do the prep and painting, but I think I can save them the $100 or so in bumper removal labour, which seems ...

And then we would have people crying about favouritism. "Discretion" should be saved for the really, really good excuses (e.g., wife having a baby...explosive diarrhea and rest stop is far away... ).

Uploaded some pictures of the damage. Looks like a repaint of the bumper, and either dent removal and repaint of the fender, or even a completely new one due to the damage to the lip (haven't looked closely to see if the sheet metal is ripped).

I got an e-mail from the insurance company saying "the repairs process has started," which was kind of ...