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Sounds like the charge might have already been reduced at the scene.

I know I only have a week to pay the second ticket but I don't want it to show up on the record for the early resolution so I was thinking of asking for a trial to delay the conviction to keep it off the record and having better luck with the 30 over tickets.

As already pointed out, having another speeding ticket isn't going to make or break any ...

Does the fact that the driver needed to speed up to hit me make any difference?
It was not necessary for him to slow down to avoid the contact, but being he accelerated caused the contact?
That part does not make sense to me.

Right of way trumps all. He was free to go straight, signal or no signal. He can just say he changed his mind and ...

Ultimately my state does not have a reciprocal arrangement with Ontario, but I don't want a conviction to be held against me on the basis of insurance fault - as i was driving my father-in-laws car. OR i would just pay the ticket, b/c points will not follow me.


If you are in a state without a reciprocal agreement with Ontario, the charge will ...

I'd like to fight it if possible because I'm pretty annoyed at this cop setting up shop near a major accident and using it to pull over car after car after car.

But it's not annoying to everyone else when you block a direction of traffic instead of waiting? You can't go anyways, so why block everyone else from moving? There's no reason traffic ...

fire wrote:hi I was wondering if they have my address wrong on my ticket if I can get off paying for it buy the way I have changed my addy with the ministry and I got a ticket for suspended driver

No, unless you want your license suspended again.

What you got was a roadside suspension.

If you are convicted, you'll face a 30 day suspension.

or should i go to trial? I read that the trial method is an all or nothing thing.

Trial is all or nothing if you turn down the offer presented to you beforehand.

My question to the board is , should i go to first appearance or to trial?

You'll get a deal when you attend your trial either way. Trial will keep all your options open, points off ...

You do not need a phone number. If they say you need a phone number, tell them you don't have one. You don't have a number, but you have a mailbox. Your license doesn't have your phone number, your ticket was most likely responded to by mail, and your Notice of Trial was sent by mail. You have gone through the whole trial process without a single ...

Today I was driving in Quebec and a cop ticketed me for 132 in a 100 zone. Which is 3 demerit points.

It's actually 4 points. Quebec and Ontario have a reciprocal agreement which means your offense will be shared between the provinces. The offense will transfer, the point will not. Ontario will take the charge and apply it to the system here and ...

If anyone has any advice as to how I could get this ticket to 29-km over I would be very grateful

Not going to happen. You already got a huge break as is. If you want a trial, your ticket can be amended to its original speed. If I was a prosecutor, i'd tell you to take it or leave it because you DO NOT want to go to trial.

While a 30 day ...

What if I try tell the prosecutor that he got the location wrong

You haven't asked for disclosure. You don't know for certain where your speed was recorded. You are assuming things by what you saw. That information would be located in your disclosure. You can't just assume these things going into trial.

and ask for 29kmph over (minor ...

My trial is next month. I didn't get disclosure cause I thought this could increase the odds of the officer showing up. I've been in court once before and noticed there were 1-2 cops only for like 12 cases? So it seems like cops don't show up the majority of the time. Then again, this was an OPP officer. He was however, very formal and seemed like ...

Agreed with what was already said.

Ticket goes to the owner of the plates. They don't care who plans on defending against the charge because the ticket will always be the responsibility of the plate holder. Your wife has no stake in this ticket. She can walk away right now, ignore it, and it will never matter to her again. However, it will follow ...

You should resubmit your 11b and be prepared to solidly argue why the delay should be attributed to the prosecutors office. I personally see nothing wrong with not including a phone number but I would be prepared to argue why you feel it is not necessary.

If you don't receive the disclosure you want, you will also have to argue that why you feel ...

- Is it possible to mail in my request to go to trial or do I have to go in person (I live 60 km from Ottawa so Id rather not have to drive in).

Yes, you can mail it in. Just fill in the blank space if you need an interpreter, check whatever boxes, and leave your signature. It's all there.

- I was wondering how do you request disclosure, do ...

rooferrick wrote:I recently got a ticket for drive-hand-held communication device. I was stopped at a red light the entire time I was on the phone (about 10 seconds). is this a viable defence?

It's not. You need to be legally parked. If you can't get out of your car and leave it there legally, you can't use your phone.

This is a drag up from the past, but I thought I would leave some input here.

Driving a car on the street with a rollcage and without a helmet could potentially be dangerous. If you got rear ended and bounced your head off the main hoop, you'd most likely bust it wide open.

I am saying this only because I'm a bigger guy and I would most ...

and if the poor visibility and weather conditions will help my case.
Thanks!

It will not help your case. Poor visibility/conditions is not an excuse to endanger people's lives by blindly accelerating over sidewalks and into traffic. If the conditions aren't suitable, don't drive. If you need someone to spot you while you get back on the road ...

1) Looking at Peels website they claim to have 12 Cameras "active" in Mississauga dated November 2012 (although clicking on the google map shows 21), along Derry road it has Red light cameras listed on Mavis, Tomken, Airport, Rexwood and Winston Churchill but not Hurontario. I saw on an older map dated August 2011 it had one listed for this ...

You aren't the only one to raise questions about the way people are charged with regard to street racing. It's been a hot topic throughout the years and there's quite a bit of case law regarding this topic.

Rulings have gone back and forth for each side. As it stands now, it's perfectly legal to impound a vehicle on the spot. Although if it's any ...

By my logic, tickets from other provinces should not count towards a higher insurance as there is no memorandum of understanding (that I know of) that state that the Manitoba Highway Traffic Act is equivalent to the Ontario Highway Traffic Act.

Provinces along with many U.S. States share a Reciprocal Agreement. Your ticket in another province or ...

There's no requirement for manufacture emblems.

This whole "the officer is not going to show up" thing is completely overrated. He is going to be there almost always. He cannot simply just not show up.

You won't know if the officer is there unless he is standing next to you and you can pick him out of the other officers who may also be in the court room. Sometimes they sit around in the court ...

Am I a terrible human being and there is no excuse whatsoever what I have just done, or does it make any sense for me to go to court and try to fight the ticket, with my confusion about the new set of lights being my defense?

Habit isn't a defense. The courts aren't going to be satisfied to hear you were simply going through the motions. Signs ...

Jake1994 wrote:Would he be able to even use his cruiser speed as evidence to give me the ticket?

Yes.

devin98 wrote:I am just looking to plea the ticket down.

If you only wish to just get a plea deal, look for the option that describes an early resolution meeting. Usually it's Option 2

My court date is tomorrow. Is there an option to request to view the evidence before the trial begins?

Thanks,

You've had plenty of time to request disclosure since you received your notice of trial. Your court date isn't the time to start asking for disclosure.

It's possible there is no video and the disclosure makes no mention of it. The ...

As already stated, speeding is an absolute liability. What that means is you are either speeding or you aren't. They aren't interested in hearing excuses to why you were speeding.

Even if they could take into consideration your current defense, in my opinion, it's absolutely terrible.

- The conditions were so bad that you actually ended up going ...

Speeding is an absolute liability offense. What that means is you were either speeding or you weren't. Your defense has to be " I was not speeding and here's why...". Saying you were doing 78 and not 80 is not a defense for an absolute liability offense. All you're telling the court is "I'm guilty and please ignore everything i'm about to say".