Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Asshat of the day award goes to the woman driving a green Civic who backed into the front of our Escort and then tried to Jedi mind-trick me into thinking it never happened.

Only a bit of very faint paint transfer on our already messed up front bumper, so I yelled at her a while and let her go.

Yesterday's Asshat Award goes to the driver of an ...

I changed my view of society. Instead of seeing it as "The Government" out to screw me over, the more I got into engineering, the more I saw it as a system of parts working together. Each person had a function in this system and rules were necessary for everything to work together without conflict. The more I thought about it, the more I understood ...

My provider is Fido. I bet it's the phone, I'm using a Nokia 6190 from 1998.

I had a sexy quad band flip phone, but the Java interface was too slow for me, especially with the size of my address book. I never got reception underground, though. We relied on pagers in the subway tunnels.

cellphone law is not in effect yet, but their in an excemption to use it for emergency purposes to dial 911

When is that law supposed to go into effect?

Also, if you are 20-30 km away from people, would you even have cell phone reception? Back in December my car got stuck on a sideroad just 6 km north of Fergus and there was no cell reception ...

That wouldn't be a criminal charge though, would it? Driving without insurance falls under the CAIA, I think.

DWI = Driving While Intoxicated, DUI = Driving Under the Influence

What you call it depends on what TV show you watch.

Timmy's truck wouldn't work. It would just get impounded by another police service. Try explaining that to the boss.

Welcome!

This is a great place and a great resource if you're enthusiastic about driving. I've been here just over a month and I've practically memorised the HTA already.

I'm not completely sure, but I don't think there is a limit. Summary conviction offences have a six-month limit, but impaired driving is a hybrid offence and the Crown can choose to prosecute as an indictable offence, which has no limit.

Now, I don't know if there is a certain time frame in practice after which you can assume the officer or the ...

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Wow, I don't like it, either. If that was behind me with lights on, I would assume it was a dickweed cab driver who had illegal lights to try and beat traffic. I'd end up calling the cops on the, er...cops

As for the paranoia, isn't that the point of an unmarked cruiser? To make the public think twice even if they don't see a marked ...

That's another part of the same section. Section 73 (2) deals with the driver's view of the highway, while s. 73 (3) is the other half that deals with persons from the outside looking in. It specifies windows and windshields, so I'm legally in the clear as far as that section goes.

Maybe 'careless driving' if the officer doesn't like the glasses ...

On unlit streets, I sometimes drive at night wearing high-contrast glasses (you may know them as shooting glasses) to highlight lane markings, shadows, and, during a snowstorm, where the two tire tracks on the road are.

Are there any legal ramifications of doing this? The light transmittance of these amber glasses are around 75%, compared to ...

The guys with unmarked cruisers should try 100 km/h in the right lane. I see so much more *EDIT* now than I did when I was the one doing 160 km/h in the left lane (yes, I used to be one of you ).

I thought Careless was a hard charge to make stick. I'm glad you had success with it; if it works for rear fog lights, the charge might be serious enough to spread by word-of-mouth and make a few more people read their owner's manual.

I guess it would be much harder to make stick for those problem front fogs? There are a lot of front fogs that do ...

.....whether one believes the speed limit is too low or not, only the driver themself can be to blame for their speed. They know the limit, they chose to break it, they got caught, so pay the piper!

If someone drives at the speed limit guess what happens, no speeding ticket, no delay at roadside. Pretty simple concept to avoid penalties and ...