“In these accidents there are often also people who are badly badly injured. They trot out the numbers about the fatalities, that is to try and bring attention of the public to this issue, but they always seem to omit the fact there are probably, for every fatality, two or three people are badly injured […]
“…here the government just walked away. They weren’t negotiating in good faith at all…” “I don’t think the court is going to say ‘tough luck’. I think the court is going to protect the right you have to be represented in court. So I don’t think this is going to go well for the Alberta
“If you get a traffic ticket, I say dispute it. The money really isn’t the issue, the issue is the stigma of it” “It’s up to the police officer acting as the prosecutor for the Crown to prove the ticket, and they’ve got to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt” “If there’s a doubt on
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“They’re basically looking at robot police, policing intersections with photo radar” “They are so many problems with it right, people aren’t disputing them. We generally would discourage it because the cost of your day versus the impact of the ticket which is nothing for you. It doesn’t show up on your driving record, it’s only
A grieving BC dad is fighting a speeding ticket against his deceased son. Are we in denial about real-estate affordability? Pierre Poilievre says he will defund the CBC if he’s elected Prime Minister. “It doesn’t show up on your driving record. There’s a recognition that we don’t know who the driver was. You couldn’t prove
“100km an hour over the speed limit is just inherently risky and dangerous and they could have been charged with dangerous driving and I think there’s a trend these days for police if they feel they have that evidence, to submit it to Crown counsel for dangerous driving charges… But the problem is they do
“This is the worst I’ve ever seen, I couldn’t believe it, 234 km/h on the Lion’s Gate bridge, this is dangerous driving…you can get a dangerous charge for speeding” “Speeds like this, you know, you put everybody at risk on the road, there’s no way it can be done safely and it’s of course far
“Now the RCMP have announced they are rolling this out across the province, where if you are pulled over for any reason, they’re just going to start right away, get your driver’s license and then make a mandatory approved screening device test and make you blow right there.” “This one doesn’t require the police officer
“Excessive speed is a funny one… It’s an expensive fine and it comes with a vehicle impound and it’s considered a high risk offence so it triggers insurance increase, it also triggers driver risk premiums… But it’s sort of a bait and switch because it’s only 3 points. So despite the fact that it’s only
“I wonder how many people have just been paying the protection money” “It can only really happen, I think in a tighter close knit community where there’s some suspicion of the police” “A business owner gets this thing and wonders, what am I going to do, and this is backed up by actual potential for violence”
“For a lot of people it’s not just yacking on the phone, it’s like texting on the phone is the big problem isn’t it?” “…they got one hand on the phone and they’re looking down and hand glancing up, driving, it’s a real risk” “…if you get that[Using electronic device while driving] and either another
The latest truck-hits-overpass incidents begs the question: Who’s at fault here? “…the fines are really disproportionate to the damage caused. But think about the other economic consequences in this case for this company – they may have a huge insurance problem because your insurance is maybe void if you do things like leave the scene
