I don't wish to disclose a ton of extremely specific details here, but here's the gist of the situation. Last Saturday while returning from a 5 day motorcycle ride with friends my wife experienced a crash on her motorcycle. She was injured, however in the grand scheme of motorcycle accidents, not ex...

There aren't any alternate charges to a handheld device ticket. The best you can expect would be a reduced fine. Thanks. I seem to have got conflicting information on this, however - there is NO chance they will offer something else? Unless you're a horrible driver and already have quite a few poin...

Thanks for all those who have offered advice so far. My early resolution appointment is next Friday.

Another quick question - if points were my main concern, what would be a good alternate charge that they may consider that would be less than the 3 points the handheld devices charge carries?

argyll wrote:Nicely researched

x2, HUGE thanks. I'm going to followup elsewhere.

For the record, this is (100% honestly) just a theoretical discussion...I wasn't charged or anything, but it just seemed like an asinine situation to me where something seemed wrong.

The zero BAC licencing condition should only apply when youre driving the applicable vehicle type. So, if a LEO claims to have laid a charge based on someone with a M2 licence driving his car with a Legal (but not 0) BAC and claims it stuck and a conviction was registered....it was an error in law ...

I'll try to explain this as quick as possible - I'd like clarification to clear up something that I read elsewhere. First off, I'll preface my post by saying that I'm NOT condoning illegal drinking and driving, however my question does relate to BAC. Situation: An experienced driver who has held a c...

The prosecutor can (but does not have to) offer you a plea deal for a lesser charge. But remember that even a 0 demerit point charge can still cause your insurance to go up. Insurance puts the charges into three categories: Minor, Major and Serious. So if the current charge is already a minor, then...

Thanks. I'm just a little concerned about the optics of the Handheld Devices charge in the end. My company took great issue with it (going so far as suspending me for a day over the issue...which I'm fighting as I haven't even been convicted of anything yet) but more or a concern is that I returned ...

Ok, filed for a court date. Received a "Notice of appointment" in the mail Friday to speak to the prosecutor. I'm presuming this is an early resolution appointment. It states "If I do not exercise this option, a notice of trial will be mailed to you as requested", so I'm assuming...

Bump, any other guidance on my last response above appreciated - headed to the courthouse location tomorrow morning to process the ticket so I'd like to get things 100% confirmed before committing to anything.

Thank you, very much appreciated. So, if the other avenues to see the charge go away fail and my court date arrives, being found guilty is apparently obvious, worst case they don't offer me any discount and I pay the full hit then? Will a JP or the prosecutor want to speak to me again before I actua...

About a week back I was charged with using a handheld device while driving – without getting into the nitty-gritty details, while stopped at a light I touched my phone to activate the voice feature, and unfortunately since it was not mounted to the dash I did have it in my hand for a br...