Usually, people get caught entering a 50km/h speed zone… It’s not the case of “Lowrain” who got caught exiting a 50km/h speed zone !
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I have a good question for you.

Where a speed limit does start ? At the road sign or when you can reed the road sign?

Here is my case. I got caught at 93km/h at the end of a 50km/h speed zone and at the start of a 80km/h speed zone. The address on my ticket is just before where the 80km/h road sign was. I really want to contest and in the worst scenario possible I can plead guilty of driving at a 93 km/h speed in the 80km/h zone.
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Dah, Andrew got his First Ticket… His story…
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Hi i came on your website to seek your opinion on either to contest a ticket or not.

So I’m driving 60 maybe 65 on Maurice Duplessis (50 zone). There’s a Honda accord far in front of me on my lane (7-8 car lengths ahead) about the same color as my car who’s driving quite fast and takes a left on the next stop sign. So i stop at the sign, and continue driving down the street and stop at the red light, when in my rear view I see a cop slowly driving down behind me and pulls right next to me at the the red light. I look at him, he looks at me, i look at him again and he points forward to me. I’m thinking to myself; I didn’t do anything wrong, so I start driving slowly as the red light turns green and he turns on his lights.
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When the police arrest us, we are sometime chocked, sometime nonchalant, since we are not totally conscious. It’s at this precise moment that, that we need to focus on what happened to us and what really did occurred. We are even less conscious, before we get to hold the ticket in our hands of what the police officer will write on the ticket.

Here is a classic story, told by Clerveda who got a ticket for excessive speeding.
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Hello,

Let me explain : Sunday June 14th 2009, I was heading up to work on the 440 highway when a police officer pulls me over. He asks for my license and doesn’t explain anything about the infraction. When I finally ask him, he answers me really harshly that I was doing excessive speeding. I was really surprised since there were a lot of cars on the highway on that morning.

Furthermore, I drive a manual car for a short moment only and I am not totally in control yet, so I never exceed the 4th gear. The thing is I cannot go over 80-100km/h in the 4th gear.

Plus, the best thing is that, when I got back home, I read the ticket and the officer noted that I was in a 70km/h zone and that I was driving at 130km/h. This is totally false, but the problem is that I don’t know how to defend myself if I contest this ticket.

Please help me !!!
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When we get a ticket for speeding, does the officer needs to show us the evidence of the excessive speed ? This is Steeve’s question…
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Hello,
I got a ticket for excessive speeding (79 in a 50km/h area) when I received the ticket, I asked the officer if it was possible for me to see the evidence of my speeding and he refused. Is this normal? Thank you
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My opinion :

I don’t believe that the officers are obligated… However, in the courthouse, the officer needs to prove that you did over pass the speed limit. Don’t forget that the words coming out from an officer’s mouth are hard to contest…

Your defence mustn’t rest on the capacity of the officer to prove that you were guilty of speeding or not… You need to focus on the fact that you didn’t do the infraction… Trying to get the officer… this is more a lawyer’s job…

A young driver was getting out with a friend in St-Eustache’s city. The nice officer gave her a ticket. She got a ticket on a commercial street since she was driving too fast. But, what is the speed limit on a commercial street ?
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My 17 years old daughter was in St-Eustache with a friend for the first time. When she got out of the parking lot, she was on a commercial street and taught that the speed limit was 90km/h and not 50 like the police officer told her… Do you think that she can contest the ticket ?
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The girlfriend tries takes the defence of her boyfriend by questioning the way the officer proceeded… he didn’t turn on his flashing lights… is this important ?
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Hello, my boyfriend got caught in the Montreal suburban area for excessive speeding. He was going 105km/h in a 70km/h zone. Unfortunately, he got caught. But, it was in an area where the speed limit changes very rapidly and he didn’t notice it. My question is, the police officer didn’t have his flashing lights on when he was on the side of the road… Is it obligatory for him ???

Thank you !
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Veronique, the lights are mainly built for safety. Even if the police officers don’t turn them on, this doesn’t change the fact that your boyfriend did an infraction… I don’t believe that it could be a good defense strategy…

Police officers don’t always use radar’s to determine the actual speed of the vehicles… Therefore, it is possible to get a ticket for constant speed at equal distance (post used as reference). This can happen in very specific locations where the police officers a used to do this kind of surveillance… This is what happened to François in Trois-Rivières…
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Hello, I’ve been intercepted after we said to me that I was going 100 km/h in a 50 km/h zone. The officers mentioned that they followed me on the Duplessis Bridge in Trois-Rivières. This bridge is 1km long. They followed me from the signalisation lights. They are at 600 meters from the next lights, where I turned right. In the evidence, it is written that they followed me at a constant speed (100km/h) at equal distance (post used as reference). They don’t mention which, bridge post, telephone post and streetlight (consider post by the officers)… (more…)

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…)

An parent tell us the case of their daughter, which, in a 50km/h zone got caught and received a ticket for excessive speeding… guilty… but not as much… what can they do?
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Here is a story for your very interesting blog.

My 18 year old daughter, 1 year of her probationary done, is arrested for excessive speeding. She is guilty indeed :

• She was speeding (details below) on a 50km/h boulevard
• The speed was registered by a laser. (Laser as seen on the ticket).

The police officer asks my daughter if she wants to see her speed. She agrees and the officer shows that the radar registered a 90km/h speed. This registered speed is more or less confirmed by two witnesses that were in the car (they agree with the “90” but don’t want to testify, real good friends…).

Then, my daughter asks the officer to explain what the consequences will be. The officer gives her the ticket, the verbal-process of the driver’s license suspension and says “What do you think ?” You just have to read the papers” without any other explanation. The officer checks out the validity of one of her friend license so that she can take the wheel.

It is only when my daughter read the papers that she notice that the registered speed is 96km/h. She doesn’t notice the impact of that difference between 96 and 90km/h since 96 = 50 (speed limit) + 46 (the category is 46 plus excessive speeding)… With the 96 instead of 90 the penalty is : 618$ (480$ penalty + 128$ of fees + 10$ of contribution) -10 demerit points – 1 week of license suspension. The thing is that with a 90km/h speed registration, I believe that the penalty would be less harsh at many levels. (more…)

A speeding ticket in a 30km/h zone is classic… police officer check more and more those area… but is it always our fault? Here is on of the newest story of Sandra… she got a speeding ticket.
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Hello, I called to my hearing next week for my ticket. Here is the problematic: On September 29, I drove my girl at her day-care center not taking the usual itinerary (I have the itinerary for the judge). I was caught at 56km/h (according to the police officer) in a 30km/h zone. However, when the police officer pointed his radar and lowered his arms, I could still see the 30km/hroad sign ahead of me (I still was 4meters in the 50km/h zone). (more…)