On the surface a perfectly sensible set of laws, it's just how punishments are doled out that's the problem - the offences are very subjective (how do you determine intent to cause a wheel to skid?) and it's your word against one cop's with very little way of proving that you didn't do it if no-one else saw.
Excellent idea, but should go through the courts instead of being doled out on the roadside.
It's pretty easy to determine "intent" to skid, it'll be obvious from the blatant use of hardbrake or hammering into a corner too fast. You don't accidentally lose traction at town driving speeds.
They'd have a harder time proving some of the others though, like slowing down with the intention of holding someone up. Be easy enough to say you had to slow down because you had something in your eye or you were coughing.
And driving slow to get close to something or someone. Not sure why that would be a crime. Most of us would call that "parking".
i think of it this way, if you're on the highway and you're in the fast lane, and some guy is coming up behind you, but you slow to 75kmh instead of staying at 100kmh, that's intentionally holding someone up... i could be wrong in interpreting that.
as for the "to get close to some[thing|one]", yeah, i dunno how they came up with that one... the only thing i can think of would be some sort of drift/gymkhana shit.
I love the "lose traction" bit. Tyres always have traction if they're on the ground, and if they're providing a force, they're sliding. What are they going to enforce here, set a limit on the legal maximum slip ratio?
I know what "holding someone up" means, but how are they going to prove it was done with malice and forethought? As I said, there's lots of reasons for dropping your speed. Admittedly, with that drop in speed should come a lane change, but you can't start punishing people for just being crap drivers (although I think they should).
i dunno... most "400 series" highways have traffic cameras, and so do cruisers... between them both, i'm sure they could come up with something substantial... at any rate, i'm more concerned about the street racing clauses.
"- intentionally causing any tire to lose traction while turning (skids or drifting)"
I'm glad they said while turning at the end, because that means spinning a wheel while driving away on a green light is something I've seen people do alot, and it's not always intentional, it'd be very hard to tell if it was too.
Just some wheel chirp on take off is usualy not even noticed by police around Toronto, peeling out is different.
I've also seen mention of being allowed to do a handbrake turn somewhere, it was actualy shown on Canada's worst driver, but they never said if it was legal or not, but I'm pretty sure it was mentioned somewhere else.
They're not gay rules either, they're quite reasonable unless in exceptional situations (as outlined above). Just because they don't agree with your vision of immature, irresponsible driving doesn't make them gay.
i used a broad stereotype joke but you must be dim witted ( or just dim vision *insert spec savers joke here * ) im not immature nor irresponible - the fact is i actually a very safe and sound driver - never speed, never crash, never **** up But with that said - LEts not agree to disagree but agree that if police or anybody wants to use laws get you in court or something Regardless of innocense or not: they best win that case, or id use my case.... to beat them like all the make yokes who act so fundimentally stupid towards me.
Except it's not a stereotype when 1 province out of a country of 10 countries and that province isn't even French. I'd call you dimwitted but you've proven countless times you're a complete idiot. I doubt that you've never crashed, and everyone speeds so stop being a total liar as it just makes your (retarded) point hold no weight with anyone with a brain.
I read that and thought it was legislation against kerb crawling. I reckon the prostitution industry took a hit with that one.
Gay rules would have you driving in rainbow coloured cars and make singing of Queen songs as loud as you can compulsory when in traffic. They might, however, be bendy laws.
Yeah actually it IS the Canadian stereotype, oversees we all call you Frenchies. None-the-less, it's just a stereotype, and personally i'm not overly keen on the whole concept of those. But you're still a Frenchie.
Habbitual speeders usually are convinced of this as fact, but it's not actually true.
Well, the whole not going to court thing does make it the police officers judgement, and if there's one thing i've learned about my dealings with the police it's that if you are going to appoint anybody as judge, jury, and executioner then it shouldn't be the police. I've had a headlight smashed and drugs planted on me by that uniform, they're more bent than a rent boy. See the problem is, the police are just ordinary people as prone to doing silly/bad/ilegal things as we are - the difference is, they also have a sense of wanting justice. It's a bad mix to want justice in a society that doesn't have any.
Hmm, that makes the mafia illegal Aren't the police shafting their employers with this law?
