OPP seize 28 vehicles under new speeding law

[eljefe]

OPP seize 28 vehicles under new speeding law
1 hour, 47 minutes ago



At least 28 people temporarily lost their vehicles and their driver's licences on Sunday after police began to enforce a new Ontario law intended to crack down on street racing and dangerous driving.


The drivers charged under the Safer Roads for a Safer Ontario Act, which came into effect after midnight on Sunday, will pay the cost of towing and storing their vehicles for seven days - about $1,000 - as well as fines of $2,000 to $10,000. They could also face jail time.


Ontario Provincial Police Chief Supt. Bill Grodzinski said police are trying to make aggressive driving socially unacceptable.


"We want to demonize aggressive drivers, much as we've demonized impaired drivers and the reason is very simple," he said. "They're killing and maiming people on our highways and that's got to stop."


The new law allows police to issue an immediate seven-day driver's licence suspension and impound a vehicle for seven days for "driving stunts" such as travelling 50 kilometres or more over the posted speed limit.


Other parts of the law:


- Ban motor vehicles from highways if they have a connected nitrous oxide system, which can boost the vehicle's ability to accelerate.


- Allow courts to suspend a driver's licence for up to 10 years for a second conviction within 10 years of the first. (The maximum suspension for a first offence is two years.)


- Increase penalties for drivers with blood alcohol concentrations between 0.05 and 0.08 grams per 100 ml of blood. (0.08 grams per 100 millilitres is the legal limit.)


- Increase use of devices that require convicted drunk drivers to pass a breathalyzer test to unlock the ignition of their car.


- Allow flashing blue lights in combination with flashing red lights on police service vehicles.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/01102007/...eding-law.html

[TKRIS]

I posted about this gestapo bullshit in this thread:
http://forums.beyond.ca/st/190968/ju...lly-dangerous/

Cops are ill-equiped at best to serve as judge and jury.

This law is too vague, and it sets a dangerous precedent for everyone here.

[Xtrema]

meh.

You are not going anywhere in GTA anyway.

[eljefe]

Originally posted by Xtrema
meh.

You are not going anywhere in GTA anyway.

lol yeah but the GTA accounts for a very small distance of Ontario highways

[JRSC00LUDE]

Idiot law made by idiots, enforced by idiots, that will do nothing to stop idiots.

[A790]

The GTA highways are always jam packed, and there are always speed racers and ricers ripping around them. It's flat out scary.

That being said, this law is a joke.

[Toma]

This is all backwards lol

It would be like legalizing selling marijuana, but tossing you in jail for having small amounts for personal use....

The logic escapes me.... like you can go and BUY a car that will do 270km/h (like a new vette), but there is no place in Canada you can use this legally .... ever! (race tracks aside).

So, they should tackle GM or Ford and limit HP to 80, make selling nitrous illegal, shut down "tuner" shops etc.....

[Antonito]

Originally posted by Toma
This is all backwards lol

It would be like legalizing selling marijuana, but tossing you in jail for having small amounts for personal use....

Wait, what?

[Toma]

Originally posted by Antonito


Wait, what?

I'm being an idiot.....

[3g4u]

What difference would it make if you have nitrous hooked up or not, how about turbos, Superchargers? Are these gonna be banned too? Because they also make a vehicle accelerate faster.

[JRSC00LUDE]

^

Don't forget gas pedals, they make cars go faster if you push on them too much!!!!!

[forkdork]

So who wants to go for a rip down highway 2 at 180kph?

[eljefe]

More than three dozen vehicles impounded by noon on Monday included one motorcycle clocked at more than 200 kilometres an hour, said Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Cam Wooley.

Among them were also three rental vehicles whose renters will now have to pay for an extra week.

Wooley said some drivers took the penalty particularly hard.

"One young man actually started to cry as his mother's car was towed away."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/stor...nt-071001.html

[Antonito]

Originally posted by eljefe


"One young man actually started to cry as his mother's car was towed away."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/stor...nt-071001.html

And suddenly this law is totally justified in my mind

[eljefe]

Originally posted by Antonito


And suddenly this law is totally justified in my mind

Yeah, I read that and couldn't help but smile.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by Toma
The logic escapes me.... like you can go and BUY a car that will do 270km/h (like a new vette), but there is no place in Canada you can use this legally .... ever! (race tracks aside).

I don't think they are banning you from using them @ the tracks. So that's why it's not illegal to sale. Just like handguns, as long as you use them in ranges.

But still, it's one stupid law and I don't think they'll enforce it much after it's introductory phase and everyone is scared shitless.

[Toma]

Originally posted by Xtrema


I don't think they are banning you from using them @ the tracks. So that's why it's not illegal to sale. Just like handguns, as long as you use them in ranges.

But still, it's one stupid law and I don't think they'll enforce it much after it's introductory phase and everyone is scared shitless.

Nah, they should just outright ban anything over 80hp.

If you want a race car, then they should allow it as an off highway specialty vehicle only, never to be used on a public road.

[TKRIS]

Originally posted by Toma

Nah, they should just outright ban anything over 80hp.

If you want a race car, then they should allow it as an off highway specialty vehicle only, never to be used on a public road.

bwahahahahahahahahahah!!!!


You talk reasonably in one thread, then spew your typical irrational, socialist, ban-everything, anti-freedom bullshit like this in another.

Pray tell, good sir, why I should not be allowed to have a vehicle with more than 80hp?
On the basis that I *may* do something illegal with it? That *you* feel that *I* don't need it?
What qualifies you to determine what I need?
What qualifies *you* to limit *my* freedoms based on your beliefs that I may do something dangerous?

Perhaps you should be out lobbying that we ban pickaxes...

Just because you have no sense of personal responsibility doesn't mean the rest of us aren't entitled to liberty.

Tell me this Mr. Pot, does your car have more than 80hp?

[Toma]

^^^^
Can I just point you attention to this earlier post....

Thanks

Originally posted by Toma

I'm being an idiot.....

[Toma]

TKRIS.... but since I like to debate even sides of an issue I do not personally believe in...

Here is my simple case for eitehr banning anything over 80hp.... or at the least, limiting them to 120km/h .....

Unlike certain things that are legal in some contexts, I bet at least 95% of the populations buys cars to commute. And to go from point a to point be, it is NEVER legal to exceed 110km/h in Canada. Ever.

So, in reality, the ONLY reason to have something capable of going over 120 km/h is to break the law.

For the 5% that enjoy racing, then, buy a dedicated race car as it will be safer. As an example.... roll bars in street cars are very dangerous, but its stupid to race a car without a roll bar.... interesting dichotomy....

So, you see.... a pickaxe has a legitimate use, a car that is capable of going over 120k/h does not.

Just realize the guy that just posted this just got his car running and is hoping it will crank to 250 km/h in 8 seconds or so