Ontario Stunt Driving Law
 

Another tough new law in Ontario for people who get caught speeding....

ok, peanut butter jelly time

it should also be noted that the OPP are also targeting cars at performance shops getting work done as possible street racing cars and seizing them i believe..

so they will crush your car before you even get to drive it, thats just ridiculous...

like the article says, what if you have a street legal or even a DD track car, how are you supposed to get it to/from the track? not everyone can afford a trailer and a truck to pull it.

They don't have enough shooting and gang violence over there to occupy the politicians.

I don't know where some people are getting their information, but they don't go out and crush cars at performance shops. Fear-mongering anyone?

If you read up on the situation in Ontario you'll find that a large majority of people who have been charged have not been convicted as the charge doesn't hold up in court. Of course, anyone could see this coming - the wording of the law is just too vague.


The guy in this example is whining about doing 145 km/h and swerving into the right lane to pass? Did you know that he's an insurance broker? I say he got what he deserves and has nothing to complain about.

Damn, I think I've done all of these at some point or another in my life. :blushsmile:

This idiot is posting all over, its on 2 local Ottawa forms. NONE of us feel sorry for him (I moved from Ottawa 5 months ago).

Everyone in Ontario is well aware of this law, and passing cars doing ~150 (notice he states 145, he was probably doing > 150 for awhile since the chopper was following him) in the SLOW lane is not advised in any circumstance. Even without this law he could've easily got a dangerous/careless driving ticket.

There's lots of mis-information on this law. It was meant to target street racing, yet was broad enough to include many different "stunt" offenses. People are upset at how much discretion the officer has to define "stunt", ie if you spin a tire cause its wet you COULD be charged, yet several officers have posted online that common sense prevails.

There is a PACER program where cops are targeting modified cars, since lets be honest, modified cars are more likely to drive illegally. They are checking for illegal mods, which they have every right to. Fart cans are annoying, and limo tint unsafe for officers.

That's not an article, its some idiot's rant.

If your car is street legal you'll beable to drive it to the track. Don't let one idiot's exaggeration of the law sway you.

i think it's silly for him to claim how it's unfair to other groups IE regular motorists that these laws are too over the top

YOU GO 145 KM/H on a highway where you're not allowed to and you think you should just be let go?

what reasoning does the OP have for that?


and the part where he said his friend can afford to get a lawyer and win the battle and normal people wouldn't be able to.
Well fuck normal people don't go those speeds. common sense has failed this individual.

That's an interesting combination of:
1. Driving too fast
2. Driving too slow

- Driving in a way that prevents others from passing
- Driving a vehicle in oncoming lanes next to another vehicle longer than is "resonably" required to pass

these 2 can b a real big dilemma

lol where is "teaming up with another motorist to block the whole road at no less than 5km/h below speed limit"

ROFL.

Now you're the one providing mis-information.

The law was meant to catch dangerous and aggresive drivers and street racing was also included. Big difference in the intention of the law. The media and a few police officials called it a "street racing law" and it seems to have stuck.

Driving in a way that prevents others from passing

the guy in the left lane should be charged with this lol

Dangerous and aggressive drivers could always be charged under dangerous and careless driving, a new law was not needed.

This law is a result of the police commissioner campaigning after a few recent deaths in Toronto from street racing.

"a few police officials" is a very lame way of saying the "top police officials". From the top down, this law was designed for street racing and implemented in the wake of street racing deaths.

^ Sorry, but that is just plain wrong. I challenge you to find me a single government source that uses the words "street racing" in this bill.

It's only 1 or 2 cops and the media who keep using the word street racing, because it's "sensational".

If you actually read up on statistics (provided by the government of Ontario) when they were tabling this bill, street racing was way, way down the list of problems they were trying to combat. In terms of "deaths" street racing is also way down the list.

If you look at the statistics for convictions under this new law, you'll also find very few are street racing related - the vast majority are single vehicle incidents.

If you lookup when the law came into affect, who supported the law and why, you'll find the reason its been labeled the "street racing" law.

There was no reason for this law, all offenses were punishable by existing dangerous/careless driving infractions, and agreesive driving was not a problem.

What was the problem is a couple deaths from street racing in the district of the bill's original sponsor, backed by the police commissioner who was campaigning.

I don't need to find "street racing" written down, you need to prove who sponsored this law, when it was sponsored, and why. I've given you enough hints.

I'm from Ottawa, recently moved here, so I am very familiar with this law. Please read this for more history of bill 203, especially concerning the "street racers" that that brought the bill back into the limelight after having been defeated.

http://blog.legalaction.ca/does-onta...ter-of-rights/

After the bill passed and the details of the drunken idiot that pulled out infront of the "street racers" barely made the news. Sadly, this is politics at its worse, and the "street racing" name fits regardless whether its written down or now.

145 isn't that fast. Hell I'll drive 145 on an open highway if I can, and I don't consider that speeding, just cruising.

Well, to qualify for this stunt driving law, you have to be going 50kmph over the speed limit, so unless the highway has a 90kmph limit, you wouldn't have exceeded the threshold just yet...

Arent the highway speed limit in Ontario 110km/h? 145 sounds too harsh for 2500 and 7 days. and possible 2 years?

NO!! Street racing is bad. End of discussion, this thread's going to fight club.

100 kmph limit

OP has admitted on other forums it was > 145.

Before this law the fine for 50+ over was:
- automatic court summons
- minimum $600 fine
- judge can suspend your license.

This law has tripled the fine and added impounding your car for a week.