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2 summers ago, I got two huge speeding tickets. Since then, I have been riding carefully. No tickets in 2004, and none this year, until yesterday... this is what happened.
Early morning (Labour day) , I'm riding in downtown Toronto. Very light traffic.
Classic situation: radar trap in the bushes, 2 officers waiting, with one police car rady to go if necessary. The officer stopped me... When I took my helmet off, he showed me the reading on the gun's display (first time ever an officer let me see the gun screen, in Ontario Canada they are not obligated to show it). The digital display said ?86 KPH?.
Then, he said that the speed limit is 60 kph in that road...
... there are signs indicating 75 kph, but he keeps telling me that is a 60 zone. I guess that at some point on the road, the speed limit drops to 60, now I have to go back and look for the 60 kph sings, if any.
The officer tells me that he is going to give me a ticket, but I'll get a break. The ticket is 65 on a 60. No demerit points. He reduced it from 26 over the limit to 5 over the limit. It was a big break. I have to say that he was a very decent officer, polite and friendly, yet business-like. I really appreciated that.
If there is no sign clearly indicating that the speed limits drops to 60kph, I am planning to fight it.
He used a laser gun. Does any one knows how they work?
Does the laser gun show the speed in real-time in the display? Does it stop when the officer presses the trigger?
Or does the officer has to press the trigger to get a reading?
Thanks for reading...
Marcos
Early morning (Labour day) , I'm riding in downtown Toronto. Very light traffic.
Classic situation: radar trap in the bushes, 2 officers waiting, with one police car rady to go if necessary. The officer stopped me... When I took my helmet off, he showed me the reading on the gun's display (first time ever an officer let me see the gun screen, in Ontario Canada they are not obligated to show it). The digital display said ?86 KPH?.
Then, he said that the speed limit is 60 kph in that road...
The officer tells me that he is going to give me a ticket, but I'll get a break. The ticket is 65 on a 60. No demerit points. He reduced it from 26 over the limit to 5 over the limit. It was a big break. I have to say that he was a very decent officer, polite and friendly, yet business-like. I really appreciated that.
If there is no sign clearly indicating that the speed limits drops to 60kph, I am planning to fight it.
He used a laser gun. Does any one knows how they work?
Does the laser gun show the speed in real-time in the display? Does it stop when the officer presses the trigger?
Or does the officer has to press the trigger to get a reading?
Thanks for reading...
Marcos