So I ended up studding my tires and got a ticket for it at a RIDE check. In preparing my defence, I noticed that the law has a very narrow, scientific definition of what a stud is. In particular, it defines a stud as something that has a Moh's hardness measurement of greater than 7. I knew the Crown...

The crown needs to prove a key fact in order to convict me, and I know she has no evidence in this regard. Would the usual strategy be to raise a motion of non suit immediately following the crown's presentation, or would I simply make an argument in my defence that the crown has not brought a prima...

I received disclosure 2 days prior to the trial, although the information was available to the crown 3 weeks earlier. The officer's notes were illegible, so I requested a typed version, which was not supplied in time for the trial. In discussions with the crown as to a new trial date, she was propos...

What if the notice of trial is for a different offence than what one was charged with? I was charged with running studs contrary to some regulation of the HTA, and the notice of trial is for making a false statement to an officer. The charging document is valid and is for running studs.

just to clarify for you it is not a "calibration" section. It is the speedometer comparison section, which is the correlation between the speedometer and the reading on the "patrol" area of the radar Just to clarify for you, whenever you compare the reading of a measuring device...

After doing some research on this and emailing IC I did manage to find out that the Decatur products are all Industry Canada certified. I have attached a link if anyone is interested. http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/sitt/reltel/srch/prfrmRELSrch.do;jsessionid=0000mwx4kE8pSFMVZB3MrhI7Bel:15ds6qt0j I couldn'...

The officer seems to have written "60" where "50" should appear in the calibration section of the disclosure sheet. Is it a viable defense to claim that the radar unit might have been out of calibration? http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr20/DrXenon/Speeding%20Ticket/Screenshot...

It doesn't matter whether you're holding the phone to your ear or talking through a bluetooth system. You're just as distracted either way. The law is suboptimal; they should have banned cellular phone use altogether.

I think you guys make a good point. Given that the benefit of studs seems to be pretty slight, maybe they're not worth getting, especially if getting my car towed depending on the Man's whim is a possibility. I can just see myself in a freezing cold garage with a pair of pliers, making the tires rea...

If you accept the ~4% accident reduction attributable to stud use in the 10-year-old meta-study linked below, and refer to the Ministry of Transport's 2006 accident statistics, you conclude that 737 fewer people would sustain a personal injury every year if everybody used studs. (I considered winter...

Here's the perfect solution: studs that can be deployed as needed by the driver and retracted when there's no ice:

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/q-tire.htm/printable

Here's a representative glare ice test conducted this year. The ones marked "piggfrei" don't have studs: http://www.naf.no/no/Forbrukertester/Dekk/Dekktester/Vinterdekktest-2009/Tabeller/ABS-bremsing-pa-glatt-is/ Here's a representative snow-braking test http://www.naf.no/no/Forbrukerteste...

Thanks for the informative and reasoned responses. In looking at recent European tests, in particular one including studded and unstudded versions of similar tires (both from Gislaved), I notice that the dry braking distance from 60 km/h was 22.5 m for the studded and 22 m for the unstudded. I consi...

Based on Nordic country test reports, I'm considering getting studded winter tires. I live in Eastern Ontario, though, so this is in violation of Regulation 617/05, which says that only people who live in Northern Ontario are allowed to have them. I'd be doing this as a conscientious objector becaus...