traffic tickets Archives - Sivapatham Legal Services Professional Corporation https://sivapathamlegal.com/tag/traffic-tickets/ Affordable Paralegal Firm in Toronto Fri, 11 Sep 2020 17:06:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://sivapathamlegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-Icon-32x32.png traffic tickets Archives - Sivapatham Legal Services Professional Corporation https://sivapathamlegal.com/tag/traffic-tickets/ 32 32 NEW DISTRACTED DRIVING LAWS STARTING 2019 IN FULL EFFECT https://sivapathamlegal.com/new-distracted-driving-laws-starting-2019-in-full-effect/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-distracted-driving-laws-starting-2019-in-full-effect Wed, 10 Jul 2019 01:28:12 +0000 https://sivapathamlegal.com/?p=666 Any time a driver’s attention is taken away from looking at the road or focusing on where they are going is considered a distraction.  Some examples include: texting, eating or drinking, putting on make-up, talking on a cell phone or to passengers and/or using any entertainment/navigation system.  There are no reasons why a driver needs […]

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]]> Any time a driver’s attention is taken away from looking at the road or focusing on where they are going is considered a distraction.  Some examples include: texting, eating or drinking, putting on make-up, talking on a cell phone or to passengers and/or using any entertainment/navigation system.  There are no reasons why a driver needs to be distracted.

Any warning and/or grace period by police has ended.

Penalties in Ontario are among the harshest.  They are as follows:

First offence:  3-day suspension, $3,000 fine
Second offence:  7-day suspension, $5,000 fine
Third offence:  30-day suspension, $10,000 fine, six demerit points

Distracting driving has contributed to an estimated 21% of fatal collisions and 27% of serious injury collisions in 2016.  This is an upward trend from a decade earlier when statistics were 16% fatal collisions and 22% of serious injury collisions.

Source:
https://www.fleetbusiness.com/news/new-distracted-driving-laws-in-effect-aug-1st

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