Erick Ouellette and Jessica's Menard's Occurrence
1.There was never anybody in the front of us until the last few minutes before we were pulled over. We have been notticing a vehicle catching up to us from a couple of km's back pull up from behind at a High rate of speed. The vehicle was a red Charger or Magnum who didn't like the fact that we were only going 100kph's in a 90 zone.
2.Vehicle followed us dangerously close along with keeping his high beams on refusing to pass us, at one point, the high beams were not bothering us as the vehicle was too close for them to reach the rear windows, the nearest passing lane was coming up in less than a Km so I reassured Jessica not to worry. Jessica started slowing down slightly more as the lights of the oncoming traffic were hurting both our eyes.
3.The passing lane appears and vehicle passes us at a very high rate of speed. 2 seconds, along with a loud engine roar that only a sports car or a powerful sedan can do, then he pulls up in front of us and slows down to 80 km/h. We figured they were expressing anger at us refusing to speed.
4.The writer, Erick Ouellette looks behind and nottices the police vehicle and pulls us over.
During the Stop.
The officer looks at us and asks my wife, "Maam, where are you going, to Sudbury Jessica replied then he paused and said what's the rush u do know i caught u going 130 in a 90 zone, did you realise you were going this fast? The writer interjected, we never went more than 100 km/h". Sir, Maam, our radar can track multiple vehicles and we caught you speeding. There are allot of large animals that cross the road at night and at your speed, if you hit one of them. But we were only going 100 Erick interjects again. We caught you when you caught up to that other car the officer said. Caught up to what car Erick said and without saying annother word left and came back 30 minutes later with the ticket.
Evidence to be Considered.
Jessica Menard, 27 years old never had any other speeding tickets or convictions which was noted in the evidence. Why are we not getting a reduction offer?
Driving an under powered 4 cylinder vehicle. We have never driven this vehicle at 130km/h. It's bad on gas and hard on the engine, this vehicle is just not ment to be driven that fast for long periods of time. Furthermore, unlike a large Sedan which i've personally seen can drive at 150kph's without the driver noticing he's speeding. Even at 120 kph's our cars higher rpms contribute to much more noise than otherwise. Hence, we know when we speed.
Labor Day Friday long weekend for two people who haven't ever had any speeding tickets. We knew they would be in full force as it's all over the radios.
Before we were beeing stopped, the opposing traffic had ambulances with their sirens and lights on and immediately followed by an 18 wheelers who coudn't stay on his side of the road, seriously, we were forced veer on the shoulder to avoid him. It is also written in the evidence that Jessica needs to wear corrective lenses. Jessica was complaining of the glare from the other vehicles lights. Her husband Erick was monitoring the speed on the dashboard the whole time from an hour before beeing pulled over.
What in the world does the Chev Cavalier have to do with evidence. The officer failed to identify the two vehicles involved. The only possibility is that his view could have been blocked from this vehicle so that the police officer missed the middle vehicle overtaking the lead. Good idea for when I do my cross examination. I do know that the passing lane likely wasn't available yet, most likely his sirens and flashers weren't on either.
Annother fact: (Maybe the most important one) I must prove to the court that there is no way to identify at night a vehicle opposising yours, even stationary and passing by at 100km's/h without a strong light source. The officers headlights beeing off while stationary is annother fact. This is not the city and there are no street lamps, the only light source possible would be on a full moon and in fact is was a new moon so it was dark. The officer would have required to catch up to the vehicles and hope the vehicle would still be speeding. If not, it's just two headlights going 130 kph's. The only thing the officer could tell would be truck, van or car, if he's lucky. Now, by the time the officer caught up to the vehicles in question, no one was speeding then. The one vehicle passed the other was somehow missed, as I mentioned earlier, probably because he was stuck behind that Chev Cav for some time.
Other question?
We never travel to Sudbury In December, January or February as the Parry Sound Snow belt is extremely treachurous and well known for storms. Do we automatically lose if we get stuck in a storm? How do we prevent this.
