Ontario Highway Traffic Act

Thanks Pepsi,

Seems your colleague at TicketCombat was right about nothing to lose and everything to gain by requesting a trial, regardless of one's final intentions. I checked option 3 but, instead of receiving a trial date, got a form letter from the court stating that the ticket was being dismissed because the police did not file in-time!

The ...

Thanks Pepsi and previous helpful Posters,

BTW and though I haven't ordered an MTO Abstract yet, it seems my Insurance probably counted my 2010 minor prior (which seemingly got thrown out as I got my entire paid fine refunded) simply because I made a claim through them for the repairs to my vehicle. Besides, as daggx advised, they (Insurance) may ...

Thanks R.I.

Hopefully you &/or your collegues can help solve another mystery of mine as it involves a prior minor traffic offense I was charged with in 2010, and which will, because of its "recentness", likely get cited by the prosecutor who will be rebutting my "previously good driving record" defence (hoping to prove to JP of low risk to re ...

This may not be directly on-topic with your situ but the 40 kph speed zone I was recently ticketed in is notably absent of any "Reduced Speed Ahead" (RSA) signs on its approaches. A poster guided me to the HTA section dealing with signs and, alas, no mention of such. Here in Barrie it seems (from being sensitized & aware as I drive around) that ...

Dear helpful posters,

I realize now that I can only request disclosure after initially choosing Option 3 and subsequently receiving a court appearance date.

Questions:

1. Does a violation that is eventually withdrawn by the prosecution (i.e. issuing officer doesn't show etc) stay on the offender's driving record, for any definite period of time ...

Thanks R.I. and Pepsi

Being 7 days away from my 15-days-to-respond deadline, do you recommend I now forget mailing in and just go in-person to the Prov Off Court offices listed on my ticket? Will I be able to fill out any forms ahead of time (i.e. Disclosure form Pepsi pointed me to) to avoid having to re-queue when I'm there etc or do I just have ...

Thanks Stanton,

Ok so my car might achieve 66 kph in 150m from a near-standing start, if I absolutely burry the throttle. If the judge/JP buys my claim that I was coming from the store's parking lot en-route to receiving my ticket, and even though he/she knows its unlikely I was hard-accelerating all the way to the beginning of the 40 kph zone ...

Thanks Stanton,

How do I request disclosure? Will this info be available to me before I go to Traffic Court? If the issuing officer did not record the Lidar distance stamp in his notes, are my chances any better of raising sufficient reasonable doubt regarding whether he acquired my speed inside the 40 zone? If I can't use Streetview imagery to ...

I was recently ticketed in Barrie in a pemanently-posted 40 kph zone. It is possibly the only permanently-posted 40 kph zone in the entire jurisdiction (the rest being time-of-day enforced around schools etc) so, not surprisingly, its also a posted CSZ. The reading was taken with a LIDAR measurement device and I was shown the device display 1st ...