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Well, simply I don't know what's going on, I've never seen so many people being pulled over and ticketed. Sadly I'm one of them, TWICE within two weeks, and the worse part, for complete BS.
The first was a couple of weeks ago... 2 police cars were holding a busy corner, and ticketing one person after another, for passing under a yellow light.
What happened for me is just wrong; two lane street, a taxi stopped within a few feet from the intersection in a NO-STOPPING zone. So I have to switch lanes to the left one to be able to keep going. The light was green so I proceeded, cars were coming, so I had to make it fairly quick. The light is still green and I take my eyes away to check my blind spot for a second, and by the time I turn my head back, I see the the light changed to yellow, but now I am within the intersection. Either I brake hard, have the car behind me smash into me or end up in the middle of the intersection.
I figured that the light had just turned yellow and that I should have enough time. Problem was, because of my change of lanes, I was going around 40km/h, so when I made it to the other side so the light went red, but not before I'm under it (the lights).
Now there was already a cop giving someone a ticket, but another car pulls out from the intersection and flashes his lights at me. I end up with a ticket for doing a red.
I returned later with camera, and they were still at it. I watched them wait and go after another "yellow lighter" which, I'd have to say didn't do it wrong, didn't floor it at the yellow, etc. I then timed the light, 3 seconds, and with the road's condition, the trickiness of that intersection, if you're not going at a full 50km/h, you can't make it across if you're within 3-6 feet from the line when the light changes.
Second instance; last night, I'm being very, and I mean very good with the speed limit. I'm going 70 (the speed limit) down the 2 way highway (the 5 after the bridge going up Gatineau towards the Casino exit).
I'm in the left lane (due to the previous traffic going on the turn pike to the other highway) and planning to switch lane.
There's one car that's in the worse place for me (just at the front right of my wheel), with other cars coming up behind us. So I'm coming up next to him, and signal, I hit the throttle just a bit to get in front in a secure way just as the car suddenly slows down, so I switch lanes and recheck my speed, and I'm pretty much at 70 when I see a cop running out from behind a pillar (of an overpass) and signals me to stop.
He runs to his car (hidden in the grass also behind the pillar) and zooms as fast as he could for the 20-30 feet's distance.
He tells me that he clocked me at 104km/h. I explain to him that I was switching lanes, that I was going at 70 before and after, and if for some reason I actually had hit that speed, it wasn't more than for a second while I did switched lane.
He stated that he saw me slow down when I saw him... and frankly, I hadn't, I hadn't even seen him until he came out to signal me to stop.
During this time, he even starts questioning my wearing of glasses, of which, I'm wearing contacts. When I offer to show that I was wearing them, I couldn't believe his face, like he had missed the lottery by one number.
So, I'm fighting these, but with 2 tickets within two weeks, it's going to be looking bad... but I've only been pulled over and ticketed once in my life (which was also BS (but that's another story), I fought and won) and that's with about 25 years of driving.
So I don't know how much pressure the police is under to try and ticket everything that moves, but really be careful. I'm really driving scared more about traps that the other factors that I should be looking out for.
And if anyone has advise, or know of someone that can help (like they have in Ontario) I'd really appreciate.
The first was a couple of weeks ago... 2 police cars were holding a busy corner, and ticketing one person after another, for passing under a yellow light.
What happened for me is just wrong; two lane street, a taxi stopped within a few feet from the intersection in a NO-STOPPING zone. So I have to switch lanes to the left one to be able to keep going. The light was green so I proceeded, cars were coming, so I had to make it fairly quick. The light is still green and I take my eyes away to check my blind spot for a second, and by the time I turn my head back, I see the the light changed to yellow, but now I am within the intersection. Either I brake hard, have the car behind me smash into me or end up in the middle of the intersection.
I figured that the light had just turned yellow and that I should have enough time. Problem was, because of my change of lanes, I was going around 40km/h, so when I made it to the other side so the light went red, but not before I'm under it (the lights).
Now there was already a cop giving someone a ticket, but another car pulls out from the intersection and flashes his lights at me. I end up with a ticket for doing a red.
I returned later with camera, and they were still at it. I watched them wait and go after another "yellow lighter" which, I'd have to say didn't do it wrong, didn't floor it at the yellow, etc. I then timed the light, 3 seconds, and with the road's condition, the trickiness of that intersection, if you're not going at a full 50km/h, you can't make it across if you're within 3-6 feet from the line when the light changes.
Second instance; last night, I'm being very, and I mean very good with the speed limit. I'm going 70 (the speed limit) down the 2 way highway (the 5 after the bridge going up Gatineau towards the Casino exit).
I'm in the left lane (due to the previous traffic going on the turn pike to the other highway) and planning to switch lane.
There's one car that's in the worse place for me (just at the front right of my wheel), with other cars coming up behind us. So I'm coming up next to him, and signal, I hit the throttle just a bit to get in front in a secure way just as the car suddenly slows down, so I switch lanes and recheck my speed, and I'm pretty much at 70 when I see a cop running out from behind a pillar (of an overpass) and signals me to stop.
He runs to his car (hidden in the grass also behind the pillar) and zooms as fast as he could for the 20-30 feet's distance.
He tells me that he clocked me at 104km/h. I explain to him that I was switching lanes, that I was going at 70 before and after, and if for some reason I actually had hit that speed, it wasn't more than for a second while I did switched lane.
He stated that he saw me slow down when I saw him... and frankly, I hadn't, I hadn't even seen him until he came out to signal me to stop.
During this time, he even starts questioning my wearing of glasses, of which, I'm wearing contacts. When I offer to show that I was wearing them, I couldn't believe his face, like he had missed the lottery by one number.
So, I'm fighting these, but with 2 tickets within two weeks, it's going to be looking bad... but I've only been pulled over and ticketed once in my life (which was also BS (but that's another story), I fought and won) and that's with about 25 years of driving.
So I don't know how much pressure the police is under to try and ticket everything that moves, but really be careful. I'm really driving scared more about traps that the other factors that I should be looking out for.
And if anyone has advise, or know of someone that can help (like they have in Ontario) I'd really appreciate.
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