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by racer
Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:09 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Should I fight my 15km/h over speeding ticket?
Replies: 12
Views: 30431

Re: Should I fight my 15km/h over speeding ticket?

admin wrote:
racer wrote:Small tickets like that usually do not count.
Every ticket counts!
Good point. When you are already getting ripped off because of sky-high insurance rates, there is no point in giving them any justification for it.
by racer
Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:06 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Bad Wreck down the road...
Replies: 25
Views: 5249

Re: Bad Wreck down the road...

Good job responding to crash within minutes! Paramedics' most often complain about getting to the scene too late, sometimes by just minutes.

Left turns.... Once, back a few years age, I was driving with my mother along Main St. in Hamilton, near Queen St. (Main there is 5 lane, one-way, speed limit 50, lights all timed for 60 hehe). We were in the ...
by racer
Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:04 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse
Replies: 29
Views: 5951

Re: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse

P.S. The first safety mod I did on my bike was installing a 130dB horn, to replace the inaudible stock tweeter :twisted:

Do you wear earplugs before starting the motorcycle? 130 dB will destroy 100% hearing in an hour!


The way it looks to me, there was a group of horse riders spread out all over the road. If they want to spread out, they can ...
by racer
Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:03 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse
Replies: 29
Views: 5951

Re: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse

P.S. The first safety mod I did on my bike was installing a 130dB horn, to replace the inaudible stock tweeter :twisted:

Do you wear earplugs before starting the motorcycle? 130 dB will destroy 100% hearing in an hour!


The way it looks to me, there was a group of horse riders spread out all over the road. If they want to spread out, they can ...
by racer
Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:39 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Should I fight my 15km/h over speeding ticket?
Replies: 12
Views: 30431

Re: Should I fight my 15km/h over speeding ticket?

Small tickets like that usually do not count. Not as much at least. Having a 30-49 over will, most definetly, increase your insurance rate, as the companies view it as "Major speeding" offence. 15 over you are looking at insurance increase of $200 per year at most, and, quite possibly, no increase whatsoever. Is this your 1-st ticket?

Call their 1 ...
by racer
Sun Apr 12, 2009 6:47 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse
Replies: 29
Views: 5951

Re: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse

I believe that anyone on this forum would have stopped before hitting the horse and not worry about the implications of that altoghether...
by racer
Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:05 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse
Replies: 29
Views: 5951

Re: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse

He deserves all he's gonna get, if you ask me.

I was hoping the guy would get assault or dangerous driving. That is nuts. Sounds like he deliberately hit the horse and rider. Obviously he's completely off his rocker.

But since he wasn't going more than 50 kilometres an hour over the posted speed limit, he'll just get a pat on the wrist.

I ...
by racer
Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:29 pm
Forum: Driver failing to ensure infant/child passenger is properly secured
Topic: Booster Seats
Replies: 2
Views: 7509

Re: Booster Seats

There was a case, unapplicable as it it is in the US, of a driver charged on a parking lot of a hospital in Dallas as he was hurrying trying to get to see his dying mother-in-law. The officer took his time and acted rude and threatened the driver, a Houston Texans running back Ryan Moats, who did not identify himself as an NFL player at the time ...
by racer
Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:11 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse
Replies: 29
Views: 5951

Update

The driver has been charged with "Careless Driving" and "Fail to Remain at the Scene of an Accident". He will appear in Owen Sound court on May 14. Looks like a license will be suspended...

The injured horse rider said:
the truck was heading down the narrow gravel road at a high speed when she began waving her arms at the driver in an attempt to ...
by racer
Sat Apr 11, 2009 1:00 am
Forum: Racing
Topic: Case Law Update
Replies: 24
Views: 17496

Re: Case Law Update

Else Lloyd must be so used to rip past the rest of us folk at 50 km/hr over THEIR speed that, when the traffic was moving 130, he felt it was his duty to overtake everyone as if they were standing still, without even realizing how fast everyone else was going.
by racer
Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:58 am
Forum: Racing
Topic: Case Law Update
Replies: 24
Views: 17496

Re: Case Law Update

OPP Constable Lloyd Tapp accused of driving 180km/h testified he wasn't paying attention to the speedometer but was going with the flow of traffic. He said he would never drive at such "ridiculous" speeds. "Personally, it's against my code of ethics to travel at that speed."

Great. If he wasn't paying attention to speedometer, shouldn't he be ...
by racer
Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:56 am
Forum: Careless Driving
Topic: Power and Status
Replies: 18
Views: 6192

Re: Power and Status

Passing in itself is not, however, speeding while passing may be illegal. How fast was the LEO going, what was the speed limit, and how fast were you going when you overtook him/her?
by racer
Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:44 am
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse
Replies: 29
Views: 5951

Re: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse

There was another accident awhile ago, where not one but two horses were killed, the driver wrote the car off, so he had to stick around.!

Wasn't there a certain police officer who was also charged under 172 who did something similar? Or are we referring to the same incident ? I read somewhere that his case was scheduled for March 11 this year ...
by racer
Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:42 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Happy Easter
Replies: 7
Views: 1837

Happy Easter

Just wanted to wish everyone Happy and Safe Easter Holidays. As well as lots of bunnies and chocolate eggs!
by racer
Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:47 pm
Forum: General Talk
Topic: Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse
Replies: 29
Views: 5951

Charges laid in rural hit and run - dead horse

The Star reports that a rural hit-and-run had fatally injured a show-horse, supposedly the next Olympic eventing contender.

Full story here

I mean just what exactly do you have to be doing to ***NOT*** see a horse and not be able to stop? What do you think?