Tags: traffic tickets
12/18/08
Santa's sled deserved ticket, union boss sez
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MixxThe Law's the law- even for Santa.
So says the tough-talking boss of the union representing the city traffic agent who ticketed Santa's sleigh in Brooklyn while he handed out presents to kids.
As neighbors and politicians demanded the summons be quashed Wednesday, James Huntley, who heads Local 1182, vigorously defended the agent who slapped a ticket on Chip Cafiero's SUV for double-parking.
Huntley said the agent didn't see Cafiero, but even if she had - Santa suit or no Santa suit - his SUV was double-parked and obstructing traffic along busy Third Ave. in Bay Ridge.
"We're not trying to ruin anyone's Christmas, not at all," he said, and he urged that the name-calling stop.
11/01/08
Unreasonable delay (Section 11(b) of the Charter of Rights)
Do you think your traffic court trial has taken too long to get to court?
Most people who are in this situation believe they can show up at court and announce to the judge that it has taken more than a year from the time they received their ticket until the day of trial and therefore the judge must throw their case out.
Sadly, for most who try this, (and I see it often) they hit the legal brick wall. The judge may quickly note that you have not filed a Charter Application and you will not be successful. You will now be faced with a trial and the "carpet has been pulled out from under you" leaving you dazed and confused.
I have even seen people who have filed a Charter Application fail. They either haven’t filed it in time or they hear from the prosecutor, who also has a say in the matter, who will correctly point out to the judge that a Charter Application has not been served on the prosecution nor on the Ontario Attorney General nor on the Canada Department of Justice. The judge will have to agree and once again they are left with the wind taken out of their sails.
Another big misconception is that if it has taken one year or more to get to court it will automatically be thrown out.
There is no magic number. Period. The Supreme Court of Canada and lower courts have written about guidelines. This means that the court can start considering a discussion about delay after 8 months has gone by. There are many factors that have to be considered when arguing delay.
10/07/08
Police issue a back-to-school lesson to drivers
Link: http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/article/85839
Sep 13, 2007 - 03:13 PM
By Jeff Mitchell
DURHAM -- Looking for the answer to traffic safety in your youngsters' school zones?
You might want to take a look in the mirror.
That's the conclusion of a Durham traffic cop after a week-long back-to-school blitz resulted in hundreds of charges, many of them laid against people who were dropping their children off for the day.
"People need the reminder, obviously," said Sergeant Shaun Arnott.
"I think it's very important that we do that -- just to give people a tap on the shoulder."
During Operation In The Zone, officers fanned out across the region from Sept. 4, the first day of school, until Friday the 7th. During that relatively short period of time officers wrote 1,091 tickets, including 796 for speeding, 80 for stop-sign infractions and eight for aggressive driving.
One motorist was ticketed for speeding twice during the campaign -- the second time having just left the courthouse to pay his first speeding fine -- while another was busted for drunk driving.
Yet another was pinched for flashing his high beams at other drivers to warn them of the presence of officers with radar in a school zone; the charge, officially, is Prohibited Use of Alternating High-beam Headlights.
08/05/08
Traffic wasn't half bad, cops say
Link: http://www.torontosun.com/News/TorontoAndGTA/2008/08/05/6352921-sun.html
One fatality up north, minor crash in T.O. amount to sterling weekend
By JASON BUCKLAND, SUN MEDIA
With the Caribana celebration and civic holiday this weekend, Toronto area roads were busy but, for the most part, problem free.
"With what was going on, and all the people we had around," Acting Staff-Sgt. Scott Collins said, "it went quite well, actually."
There were no fatal vehicle collisions in Toronto over the long weekend and only one in central Ontario.
A man was killed on his motorcycle in Orillia, OPP said yesterday.
And a man was put in hospital with minor injuries after a crash last night at Danforth Ave. and Danforth Rd.
The holiday weekend was not without its notable traffic incidents, though, as several drivers made decisions they likely regret heading into the short work week.
A driver at a Tim Hortons off Hwy. 407 got so nervous when he saw a police cruiser, cops say, he put his mom's car in reverse instead of drive and backed right into a lightpole, getting the attention of the very officers he was trying to avoid.
And a driver from New York was caught -- also along the 407 -- going 227 km/h in his Infiniti G37.
CORNY EXCUSE
When asked why he was driving so fast, he told the OPP he had just eaten corn soup and really had to use the washroom.
"I've heard about the ethanol in corn making cars go fast, but this was something else," OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley said.
All in all Woolley was very impressed with the weekend's collision numbers.
From this date last year, Ontario is down 30% on fatal crashes on the province's roads.
"That's about 80 less people that are dead as a result," he said.
5,000 traffic charges laid over the long weekend
Link: http://www.680news.com/news/local/article.jsp?content=20080805_080220_8620
By: Jaime Pulfer
Toronto - At least 5,000 charges were laid on the highways over the weekend, about a ticket every three minutes in the Toronto area.
OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley told 680News over 150 excessive speeders had their vehicles seized over the long weekend, including a driver from New York, who had passengers in the car. He was clocked at 227 kilometres an hour on Highway 407.
Woolley said that when the man was asked why he was driving so fast, he told the officer he had just eaten corn soup and had to use the washroom.
But, the street racing legislation, which went into effect over 10-months ago, has been getting a lot of credit.
The street racing legislation went into effect at the end of September and Woolley told 680News at least 80 people are alive because of it.
"If you can put this into perspective, that's 80 more people that are alive compared to the same time last year, so this isn't some little fluctuation," Woolley said.
He added that there's been a 40 per cent drop in fatal high speed crashes compared to the same time last year -- something he said he's never seen in his 30 years as an OPP officer.
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