Ontario Highway Traffic Act

If the defendant does not show up at trial, under the POA, a section 9.1 is conducted and without a hearing or the officer being on the stand a conviction is registered if the certificate of offence is regular on its face.
The offcer is not required to be there for this process.

Not where I worked. Ex parte trials definitely occurred - very ...

No, if you've set a trail date then the trial has to go ahead even if you are not there to give evidence on your behalf. The officer would take the stand and give evidence of the charge and you'd be convicted (except in one legendary case when the officer messed up the testimony and lost an unopposed trial !!). So, no, the charge was withdrawn ...

I'd check with the court house. Sound like it might have been withdrawn.

I don't think you're going to get any traction saying that is a 5. It's just poor handwriting.

Careless has become the go-to charge for police. Firstly because it does kind of fit in that if you drive off the road you weren't driving with care. Secondly supervisors, in my experience, say to lay it and thirdly because it scares people into accepting a plea deal. If you were charged with something else like failure to turn out to avoid ...

Personally I think this was the right decision. You were looking for a loophole. You weren't actually prejudiced because you knew what you were being charged with. That's the point of the process.

My spouse has 2 driving under suspension and 1 driving disqualified convictions within a year and a half originating from a dui conviction over 80. He keeps driving. What are the consequences to him for another disqualified conviction? And what would be the consequences to the owner of the vehicle, me?

You need to get him to stop driving your ...

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If noone answers they will not give up. They'll go to your work, or whatever else works. Not answering your door is a not a good option. These things don't go away.

You might - might - be able to get the insurance dropped if you plead to the reduced speeding. That's 1 ticket in instead of 2.

With red lights there will be a stop line. That's where you need to stop. I'm not quite sure I'm following what you're asking.

Traffic control signals and pedestrian control signals
144 (1) In this section,

Exception – turn
(19) Despite subsection (18) and subject to subsection (14), a driver, after stopping his or her vehicle and yielding the right of way to traffic lawfully approaching so closely that to proceed would constitute an immediate hazard, may,

(a) turn to ...

Personally I think it is ludicrous that they can put in a system that does not work for legal users of the roads. They need to either go to timed light changes or, as in the UK, cameras to detect vehicles.

What you did was wrong. From your description can we assume that your right tires were on the shoulder ?

It's certainly not the most henious of manoeuvres so I would suspect you could plead down to a lesser offence.

Not knowing where you are going is certainly no defence.

I've seen that charge laid before without much success.