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Street-Racing Law Ruled Unconstitutional, OPP Will Continue To Lay Charges

09/09/09

01:53:44 pm, by Gary Parker, 188 words
Categories: In The News, Highway Traffic Act, Speeding, Stunting and Racing

Street-Racing Law Ruled Unconstitutional, OPP Will Continue To Lay Charges

2009/09/09 | CityNews.ca Staff

A newly enacted provincial law that targets dangerous drivers has been ruled unconstitutional.

Ontario’s street racing and stunt driving legislation carries a possible prison sentence, but gives the accused limited grounds for defence, a Napanee judge found.

Ontario Court of Justice Judge G J Griffin made the decision Friday.

However, that doesn’t mean cops will stop handing out tickets.

Follow up:

“From what I understand of that legislation, it was just on that individual case,” OPP Sgt. Dave Woodford explained Wednesday on Breakfast Television.

“We’re still enforcing it.”

In a weekend safety blitz, the Ontario Provincial Police found over 7000 on our highways.

That included 133 impaired driving charges, 7193 speeding charges and 10 of the controversial stunt driving charges.

“Under the stunt driving and street racing legislation there are a lot of different definitions and one of them is going more than 50 kilometres an hour over the posted speed limit.

“That’s the portion of it that we mainly deal with on the highways, but there are others, like going through intersections,” Woodford added.

A newly enacted provincial law that targets dangerous drivers has been ruled unconstitutional.