Hi all, this morning my brother was pulled over by a police officer. The police officer stated that he pulled him over because he did not stop for “long enough” at a stop sign.
The officer agreed that my brother had come to a complete stop, but that it wasn’t a long enough pause. He told my brother he would do him a favour and put the violation down as “fail to obey traffic control device” which held a lesser fine ($243).
My brother is newly in the country from the UK, and so just accepted this and called me later to tell me about it.
Can he fight this in court? I didn’t realize you had to count to a certain amount of seconds during your stop. Or should he consider himself lucky that he didn’t get a bigger fine?
This was in Banff BTW. Any advice appreciated! Thanks.
Not generally, like "roundabouts", specific, like "the roundabout at 590/Titus" (warning, I think that was the best improvement that was made recently).
I'll begin.
If you ever hear the traffic light at Titus/Gardham was destroyed with violent prejudice, don't turn me in.
Biggest waste of money imaginable. We're told it was to help manage traffic from the high school, but I've got a news flash - you can set the light to be a yellow/red flake on a schedule. That should never turn red on Titus on a summer evening, for example.
If we need another light in Irondequoit, it should be at Bouckhart/E. Ridge.
Just today I was stopped for running two reds I did not even think twice about (nearly every cyclist does it). But since the officer told me he could have written me a $190 Bicycle Red Light ticket and had observed me running those lights should I even bother fighting it since he effectively knocked it down to $50 on the spot?
I see on here a lot of people who have gone to traffic court have gotten their tickets at least reduced, but since we're talking $50 here would it be worth the hassle of going to court just to maybe get $10 or $20 shaved off it?
