Argh! Highways…100km/h…? 119km/h ? 70km/h…? Dangerous… particularly on the access road… Here is Marc-Andre’s story that has passed “ under a police officer ”…
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Hi,
I am 20 years old and I never got a ticket before, for any reason that may be before this last Sunday (I got my probationary license in July 2005). I was driving north on Décarie Highway (70km/h speed limit). And, on this Sunday morning, there wasn’t much traffic, only a few cars were driving towards Wellington exit. I was driving with the flow speed. While talking with my brother (passenger) I was keeping the same speed.

On the highway near the place where a lane adds up from the Turcot interchange (720 coming oust and melting with the highway 15 north), I get in this lane free of any cars. Being distracted, I don’t see that the car surrounding us speed down, however the lane was free so, I keep my speed. Just before passing under the viaduct Bourret, my brother tells me that there is a police officer parked on the viaduct. He looks at my odometer and notice that I am going at about 125km/h tops, which I concede is way to fast even if the traffic is going at about 110km/h at this point. Once I got pulled over by the police officer, he tells me that I registered my speed at 131km/h, which was not the case. I got a 1015$ fine and 14 demerit points with a 7 days suspension of my driver’s license. (more…)

Patrick’s little story… whom, while exiting the highway, had many lanes to overpass to get to the turning point… the officer gave him a ticket since he was driving too fast. However, there were no apparent speed limit signs… Can we contest this ticket for highway exit?
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Hello,
I just received a 125$ ticket in a 50km/h zone since I drove at 75km/h.
My story is the following. I am in a highway exit where the recommend speed is of about 65 or 70km/h (yellow signs) I am on a highway that connects with a boulevard with a 50km/h speed (that’s what is written on the ticket).

I need to get to the next crossroad which is about 100meters in front of me and to do so, I need to cross 3 lanes. However, there is no road signs about the speed limit between the crossroad and the highway exit, am I guilty of over passing the speed limit which is not indicated in the 100meters.

Then, the fact that I was going 75km/h is because I needed to speed up in order to get in the left lane (4th lane to turn since there was vehicle up coming. The police officer explained that I only had to go further and do a u-turn that this was the safe thing to do. Can I contest this kind of ticket ? By the way, I am working as an engineer for the community of the City of Montreal, so can I have a good credibility facing a police officer from Laval ? Or do I need to get a lawyer ? Finally is it worth it ?
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My opinion: (more…)