What should you do if the police pull you over? Can the condition of your tires be brought up in court if you crash on the Sea to Sky Highway this winter without appropriate winter tires? And what can impact a breathalyzer test?
While many of us have been driving for years, these are the questions most of us don’t have the answers to. We know the laws, perhaps, but not our rights and obligations.
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What should you do if you’re pulled over for some reason?
Do produce your license and insurance. And you’re required to state your name, your address, and the name and address of the registered owner of the vehicle. So make sure that you do all of those things if you’re asked, because you can get ticketed if you don’t. You could get arrested for obstruction if you don’t provide your identification to the police.
The other thing you have to do is if you’re asked to provide a sample into a roadside breathalyzer or perform any type of sobriety test, like walking on the line and standing on one foot. If you’re asked to do sobriety tests, you are required to participate in those. You cannot refuse.
That’s one of the biggest ones that people don’t know because in the U.S. you’re allowed to refuse the breathalyzer. Since we get a lot of our legal information from the U.S., people honestly believe that they can refuse, but they can’t.
So do all of those things.
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