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Briefly -- I was at an intersection where I had a stop sign (I was stopped) and the road I was turning onto ha...
Regardless of who is at fault, you can still ask for a trial and state your case. Maybe the other driver was exceeding the speed limit and the sightlines may ha...
Not sure if my title was clear enough... that said I received a warning for speeding and a ticket for a moving...
Not sure if my title was clear enough... that said I received a warning for speeding and a ticket for a moving violation. The moving violation ticket is 2 point...
Hey everyone, Looking for advice from anyone experienced with OPP in-car camera disclosure & same-direction ra...
Hey everyone, Looking for advice from anyone experienced with OPP in-car camera disclosure & same-direction radar mechanics. I was pulled over by the OPP and is...
I am an idiot!! So I was going home after a a concert at the opera house October 10,2025. It was raining that...
I am an idiot!! So I was going home after a a concert at the opera house October 10,2025. It was raining that night and I don’t feel comfortable driving highway...
Who is allowed to have flashing white lights to the front? Example, construction or event vehicles?
Alternating highbeams on other vehicles prohibited (2) No person shall use highbeam headlamps that produce alternating flashes of white light on any vehicle oth...
Hello everyone im in a situation where I was caught while driving with a suspension. My suspension is from a w...
Hello everyone im in a situation where I was caught while driving with a suspension. My suspension is from a warn range offense from very late January while bei...
Hey all *40 y/o female, clean record, last ticket over 10 years ago. Charged with a stunt ticket - excessive s...
Honestly, if your lawyer can’t sit down and explain why this plea makes sense, I’d be frustrated too. You’re the one who has to live with the result, so “just t...
Hi everybody. Hoping to get some help and insight. Three weeks ago I received a speeding ticket in Mississauga...
I wouldn’t assume it means the officer never filed it. Could just be a delay or a data entry issue. If it were me, I’d call the Mississauga Provincial Offences...
Hello All Sorry to just come out with a question but representing yourself and finding this info has its limit...
Hello All Sorry to just come out with a question but representing yourself and finding this info has its limits. I was at an intersection, advanced green. I wal...
Hoping to get some help on how this works. I was stopped back in January 2025 and the officer said it was beca...
Hoping to get some help on how this works. I was stopped back in January 2025 and the officer said it was because my license plate was starting to peel. It wasn...
In Mississauga today managed to see an OPP bicycle waiting on an off ramp?
What is the point of these really? Do they actually use them much.
Went by the detachment i must have seen the weirdest looking OPP vehicle ever.
It was a Huge White Honda Pilot 2006-2009 model.
It was a big white vehicle, it did have a light bar on the top (led one), and all it said in black letters on the hood was…
Hello there, I noticed a similar post. I have a trial approaching and would like some advice in respect to my scenario.
Heres the setup:
Just finished an 18 hour night shift outside in the cold, I was not amuzed. So I leave to go home. I took 30 minutes to drive 8 km. Now Im just plain irritated. Tired yes, dangerously tired? No. Just irritable. Anyway after getting every light red, and stuck…
Hey all,
Just wondering if I can get any advice on this...
So I went on vacation and left my car parked outside my house, in a legal area, but facing the wrong direction. I am unable to park on the other side of the street in the right direction because there is a fire hydrant. I had no idea that I couldn't do this, I mean to me it doesn't make sense- who cares which way you park. There also is a…
Just wondering how the prosection goes about proving who was the driver at trial. If I tell the officer I was driving the black car is that sufficient proof or is that hearsay or does it have to be discussed in court. Just curious.
Was driving in light traffic this past Sunday at 7:30pm ish. Doing 100 in the left lane of a two lane 90km/hr highway. Cop is sitting in the right lane doing about 95. I accelerate to 108 to do a lane change and hop off the highway. Cop turns on his blinkers and pulls me over. Asks if I know the speed limit and why I was doing 110. I told him to follow the flow of traffic and make a safe lane…
***** I previously posted this under "Speed Traps" by mistake ********
Hello all this is my first time posting here, I like what i've read so far. You all seem like a great bunch of people 
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I hope this is in the write section
I was caught by a speed trap and given a ticket for the following offense
exactly as written on the ticket:
"SPEEDING. 75 KM/HR IN A POSTED 60KM"
What I found odd was that the…
Hey all,
Just curious if anyone has any thoughts on today's Supreme Court ruling "clarifying" limitations for criminal and provincial trial maximum timelines. This appears to supersede R v. Askov and R v. Morin, based on a light read of the press coverage. Given my lack of legal background, was curious if anyone could speak to how this impacts the reasonableness test of time to first…
When I was issue a speeding ticket the officer approached to the passenger side and started talking to the passenger.
He was explaining to the passenger what kind of laser he used and at what distance he tagged my car. He did not say what speed my car was going.
I gave the passenger my driver license to give to the officer. The officer went back to him car to write up the ticket. He came back to…
Hi, everyone
I was on the highway early morning. I saw the car going behind me in a good distance. Than he came close to me. I dont like if somebody tailgating after me. It was very close to me, too close. Car was black with dark windows. I become a bit scared of this guy. There were some cars on lane beside me, so I couldnt change the lane right away. To let him go I increased speed to pass the…
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Police officer didn't show up so I thought the tickets I got would be withdrawn. However, the JP said the trial needs to be rescheduled; now I need to take another day off to attend. Many people at the court with me also appealed but their trials were rescheduled, too. Is this common practice? If police officer doesn't show up again, would it be rescheduled again? Or, is it all depends on JP's…
i was charged under sec 142(1) HTA in a 3 car collision. I requested a trial date and disclosure. when the disclosur documents arrived included was an application for an adjournment due to the officer being on training course during the scheduled trial date. I assume a new date will be set further out? When i reviewed the disclosure docs it included accident reports, statements from the 3 drivers…
I got my first ticket(s) in 15 years, for a rolling stop of the Gardiner West ramp at Yonge, by a whole bunch of cruisers under the bridge pegging off people 1 by 1. I didn't have my wallet, so 1 ticket no licence surrendered, 1 ticket fail to stop.
1)Should I use a professional rep in court? or
2) My natural thought would be to pay the no licence ticket, and reschedule the court date later for…
I received a redlight camera ticket. It shows my car in the first picture at the line, but the 2nd picture shows an empty intersection.
Is this enough to get the ticket thrown out? If so, how should I go about doing it?
Hi All,
Forget about your work, the minor daily glitches and irritations and throw all that aside. Time to enjoy your time with family and friends.
Wishing you all the best at Christmas and into the New Year.
Bear
ps....Keep the rubber side down!
Hi everyone!
I've posted at this forum before under a different username a while back, which I unfortunately can't remember, and at that time the people who replied back were extremely helpful and for that I'm grateful.
Last night I was leaving Toronto driving north on University just north of Queens Park around 3 am. Two cops were checking to see if anyone had a bit too much to drink that night. I…
I have an unusual situation.
I was traveling down the 401, noticed a speed trap, and started flashing my lights -- in order to warn oncoming drivers.
Within a 30 seconds, a car slowed, crossed the grass, and approached me from behind. Lights appeared, and I then realised that this was an officer in an undercover car.
The officer pulled me over, and while he was polite, clearly his motivation was to…
heres the story
i am 25 with a G2 Drivers license. had a lot to drink saturday night. woke up the next morning and drove home around 1pm sunday. got pulled over for speeding, police officer smelled booze had me blow a breathalyzer. i blew 0.035 . he aloud my passenger to drive my truck home. he gave me 2 tickets . 1 for speeding infractions and the other for Novice driver b.a.c over 0%. now the…
In 2011, I got hit with a nasty ticket over in Quebec, 135 in a 70. That's fine, I knew what I was doing, and I faced the consequences.
I plead not guilty however, just because my insurance renewal was coming up and I thought I may as well buy my self a year, fast forward to 2014, is when I finally had a court date, and I just decided to pay the ticket before the Court Date.
It has now been well…
www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/538115
I watched a 1-hour interview with Mr. Mulcahy on Legal Briefs with Lorne Honickman a few weeks ago. I felt terrible for him because he lost his 18-yr.old son at a very young age. When I listened to his pleas for "no tolerance" legislation with regard to drinking and speeding, I really did sympathize with him but knew legislation would never be passed…
I got charged with speeding in a community safety zone. The community safety zone signs are unenforceable because they are in English only (see R. v. Myers: www.yourbestdefence.com/illegal_street_signs_case.html) and I'm in a designated bilingual area. My question is, do I still get charged for speeding or will the whole thing be quashed?
Hi.
last weekend I was driving on the 138 towards Cornwall.
its an 80 zone, 1 lane each direction.
I follow 2 cars that goes between 65 an 80, annoyingly varying their speed.
after a while I decide to pass, in a passing zone.
the road goes downhill.
I accelerate pass the first 1, then pull back in the right lane.
the passing zone is coming to an end so I accelerate again to pass the second one.
there…
Brampton cop siezed my license plates because my rear tire were bald and gave me a summon. How do I get my plates back? Also how do I know how much I have to pay for this? If I plead guilty in court what happens? Are there any demerit points involved? Also I received a summon for no muffler. How do I approach these 2? How does a summon work how do I know what my penalty is?
This may be unusual, but I'd like to know what I should have done in the following situation:
My family used a taxi service recently and our inattentive driver failed to stop at a stop sign which nearly resulted in a collision with another vehicle backing out of their driveway on the far right of the intersection. My husband filed a complaint against the driver and the company defended him by…
Hello all,
I got one and what my surprise was when I found out it would cost me 4 d.p.
Later on, after thinking it over, well, at regular highway speed it can be really unsafe and dangerous.
No accident. Hwy 401.
Very lightly snowing with thin snow bands between the lanes. Slowly moving with speeds ranging between 10km/h and 20km/h.
I was aiming to change lanes from the left to the middle and then to…
Hi, all,
A couple weeks ago I was out for one of my last rides on my sportbike (94 Kawasaki ZX6E) before I sell it. I've had it for three seasons but have been wanting to get something less ridiculously fast and more comfortable for long distances.
Unfortunately, I got twinked while getting a last taste of the performance. An OPP officer spotted me on County Road 7 near Elora and followed me onto…
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