Ontario Highway Traffic Act

TicketCombat has an entire section on seatbelts and some possible defenses.

http://www.ticketcombat.com/seatbelt/intro.php

option 1 is not guilty/trial ..... So I,m assuming you're suggesting pleading not guilty even though this is photo evidence, and negotiate a lower fine at time of trial?

Your understanding is correct - Not guilty Trial.

It's a free country and even though they have the photo evidence the goverment must still properly convict you at trial. Hence ...

Always Option 3.

With Option 3 you still have the leverage of forcing them to put on a full trial and use court time. Thus you can make a plea deal.

With Option 2 you have plead guilty and have no leverage. You will probably end up with the same fine as Option 1, but will have also wasted time attending court.

It will depend on how they do it at the court house you will be attending. But you should be able to get a plea bargain simply by speaking to the crown prior to the start of court on your day.

Asking for disclosure will not change the way the crown handles a plea bargain. However asking for disclosure creates an opportunity for the crown to mess ...

They came to my house with police officer and pressurized her and get the Insurance information from my wife while I was away.

Question: What are you required to do in this situation?

Can you tell the officer, "I know nothing about this. please leave", then shut the door?

Or are you required to provide them with DL, insurance etc?

If you ...

You missed out the definition of the term VEHICLE..which is of great importance in this and any other Act containing this word. Then add the word MOTOR .... it comes as no surprise to me that the the word MOTOR has been attached to the definition of vehicle to obscure the fact that a vehicle is a vessel of commerce. If yoou read the Acts ...

Apparently he was not arrested or even charged/fined for his stance.

I don't follow you.

Why would you have an expectation of being charged for using an "off the wall" defense? As long as your respectful when you present it to the Justice then your free to use the defense of your choice, the worst thing that can happen is that it's fails and ...

I think your first problem is that Blacks is an American Law Dictionary.

But more importantly, you need to look at the relevant Act. Each Act defines the scope and meaning of the terms its using, and its normally found in the first section of the Act.

The following are the meaning that appear to be of interest to you from The Ontario Highway ...

hwybear wrote:We will probably agree to disagree but that is how I would treat the situation.

You have convinced me that Car A has the right of way.

And now that I know this I'm going to be way more aggressive in exercising my right of way when I'm making Lefts.

I was closely following the front car when the light turned yellow. I think I can pass and it was raining so I did not stop.

So the conditions where making it difficult to stop, yet you where closely following the car in front of you?

Sound like your lucky you didn't also get a careless or following too closely charge. Becareful with what you ...

"At an intersection with stop signs at all corners , you must yield the right-of-way to the first vehicle to come to a complete stop"

Agreed, but this is not the situation being asked about.

The situation is:

"East and westbound directions are controlled by stop signs, and the north and southbound directions are through traffic."

The ...

I think what you remember and want is this:

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/driver/handbook/section2.4.3.shtml

At any intersection where you want to turn left or right, you must yield the right-of-way. If you are turning left, you must wait for approaching traffic to pass or turn and for pedestrians in or approaching your path to cross. If ...

I believe that you are correct, I'd go with 141(5):

As I understand this, if your turning Left you do not get the right of way over anybody.

Turning at intersections

141.

Left turn, across path of approaching vehicle

(5) No driver or operator of a vehicle in an intersection shall turn left across the path of a vehicle approaching from the ...

I came across this story in today's paper, he clearly didn't visit this site and decided to use a nut job defense.

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010 ... 41071.html

The notice of summons is in fact the "ticket" you received.

You can get a "ticket" either via a Provincial Offense notice (PON) (the normal way) or via a Summons (what you got).

An officer only has a limited number of days (10?) to issue a PON after that they need to get a Crown or Justice to issue a Summons.

The amount of time that it took ...