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Section 1 of the Act covers definitions and application of the Act to places other than highways. The definition of "highway" in the Act is broad in nature to include "a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, any part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the area between ...
In 2013, "speed too fast / exceed speed limit" contributed to 18.4% of all collisions, [25] while "speeding" accounted for 55.2% of all driving convictions. [26] An Ontario-based group is lobbying to increase speed limits from 100 km/h to 120 to 130 km/h (75 to 81 mph). [27]
A person's Canada-wide driving privileges will be suspended, for any Criminal Code driving conviction, although lengths of suspensions vary by province and territory. In some cases, a driver's licence can be taken away permanently after a certain number of Criminal Code driving convictions, as in the province of Ontario. [14]
If a driver accumulates enough points, a suspension/loss of licence can occur. For a fully licensed driver in Ontario, the accumulation of six demerit points results in a "warning" letter. At nine points, the driver is scheduled a mandatory interview to discuss their record and give specific reasonings as to why the licence should not be suspended.
James Sauvé and Richard Trudel were convicted in 1996 of the 1990 murder of a man and his pregnant wife in Cumberland, Ontario. Their trial was the longest in Canadian history, lasting 16 months. In 2004, their convictions were overturned on appeal and a retrial was ordered. The charges were stayed on January 12, 2007, and the men were ...
Driving without due care and attention or careless driving is a legal term for a particular type of moving traffic violation related to aggressive driving in the United States, Canada (at least in Ontario [1]), the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It is often punishable by fines or endorsements like suspensions on a driver's license.
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By 2008, drinking and driving cases made up 12 per cent of all criminal charges, making it the largest single offence group. In 2008, it was estimated that 53,000 drinking and driving cases are heard every year in Canada. The conviction rate was 73 per cent, which exceeded the rate for all criminal convictions by 13 per cent.