Well here’s a REAL Happy Canadian Thanksgiving for you! Ten grand for a speeding ticket!’

Agent001 submitted on 10/08/2007 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 6:53 PM
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Well here’s a REAL Happy Canadian Thanksgiving for you! Ten grand for a speeding ticket!’

The message this week is very clear: There's no room on Ontario's highways for "extreme" driving. The law was beefed up last weekend to throw the book at speeders, racers and stunters.

As of writing this column on Wednesday evening, more than 100 drivers have had their vehicles impounded for seven days with all the towing and storage costs that includes, plus probable fines of at least $2,000 and an automatic seven-day licence suspension.

Some of these drivers – probably all of them – definitely deserved it.

The 24-year-old caught at 140 km/h on the Don Valley Parkway in his mom's Mazda Protegé definitely thinks so, left literally crying beside the road.

And the guy delivering his client's Aston Martin from one garage to another, nabbed at 160 km/h on the Gardiner Expressway, is still without his licence. The Aston is still at the pound and I'll bet the owner's not happy.

The Spies would like to wish all our readers in the USA a Happy Columbus Day and our friends north of the border a Happy Thanksgiving!

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EL34 - 10/8/2007 7:15:21 PM

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Goble Goble Goble

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raschitakochangwenya - 10/9/2007 12:46:03 AM

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these speed limits were set a long time ago when cars where not as sophisticated and safe as they are today,if 140kph is going fast then,why have cars with lots of horse power ,whats the horse power for? .Its would be better if everyone just drives one of those 50hp three cylinder cars from the Mr bean comedy show or better still have a bolt welded under the accelerator to make sure no matter how you mash on the gas your car wont go beyond 100kph.This is f**KEN ridiculous.What the ontario gov should do is to make defensive driving courses mandatory and not have these stupid laws in place its not speed that kills its the uneducated driver that kills going at 40kph can just kill you as going at 140kph but if everyone is trained to drive the proper way its going to drastically reduce the accidents on the roads .This is just a cash grab by the police and for sure they are going to make a whole lot of cash on this one .My apartment is on the dvp and the speed limit there is 90kph ,but no one travels at that speed ever cars are averaging 120kph all the time.

EnnNorak - 10/9/2007 8:58:54 AM

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Fully agree with you raschitakochangwenya. I escaped from Ontario to live in freedom in Alberta.

Ontario needs the revenue to pay for years of government mismanagement. They go after citizens with high taxes and unfair speeding tickets. They even force you to get your car checked every two years which is a real pain in the butt.

Ontario was the first province to have a gas guzzler tax which is was blatently unconstitutional as the federal governmnet never gave the energy conservation mandate to the provincs. Nobody challenged it and they got away with it. A socialist adminstration (NDP) started it and when the conservatives took power in the province they did not rescind it because it was another cash cow. I paid $400 in gas guzzler tax for a new Jeep YJ that I bought my daughter at the time. Later the hypocritical politicians changed the name of the tax to "tax for fuel conservation" to make it sound more positive.

BTW, we now have a national "green levy" on cars and that's under a conservative government. I don't know if Ontario still charges its gas guzzler tax on top of the national green levy.

AgentOrange - 10/8/2007 7:46:49 PMView My AgentSpace

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You gotta be going 50 Kmph+ over the posted speed limit before they impound your car for a week and suspend your license for a week.
Normal traffic flow on most hiways or freeways (e.g. 400 series hiways)is 20 - 30Kmsph over the posted speed limit. Cops won't touch you as long as your no more than 20 Kmsph over posted limit.

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ATrain - 10/8/2007 8:33:15 PM

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That seems excessive.

140kph is 87mph. How many people in Montreal, Atlanta, NJ or the entire NE do this daily? I don't see the accident rate going through the roof because of that.

It's one thing if someone is swirving through traffic and it's another if they're going in a straight line with little traffic. I realize legislation needs to apply broadly but it seems to me that's the reason we have other laws that define dangerous driving. Freedom is becoming a rare commodity in North America.

Long live Germany...

recca7 - 10/8/2007 9:34:57 PM

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its cause this year during any civic holiday there's been numerous crashes and deaths, not all related to street racing but most are...just yesterday or 2 days ago there was this beamer and audi, witnesses claim they were racing, the audi i think spun out of control and hit another car going back into town, 2 deaths was the result of these racers negliance..i'm not sure if they caught the beamer but the audi dude has been charged for manslaughter and dozens of other changes probably..but yea thas just one of the accidents out of a couple dozen that has happened 2 days ago when this law was already enforced about a week ago...what shocked me was the cops estimated from previous holidays and said they expect to impound 800 vehicles over this thanksgiving weekend...tomorrow we will know if this new law is of any help...i personally dno't mind it, there seriously has been too many deaths this year over people driving recklessly

Agent009 - 10/9/2007 8:13:30 AMView My AgentSpace

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The would never float down here. In the western part of the state the speed limit is 80 and the typical driver is running 90-95 most of the time. The police won't even stop until you are 15 over.

EnnNorak - 10/9/2007 9:08:40 AM

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The truth is that if everyone slows down to the legal limit, the highway gets clogged and people start passing unsafely causing more accidents. Also, Insurance companies love legal limits that nobody obeys as then they can raise the insurance rates for anyone unlucky to have been caught "speeding". they say "speed kills" but in reality "slow kills". I once got a silly speeding ticket on a nice newly repaved highway going form one town to another. On my way back I carefully kept the speedometer exactly at the legal limit. A parade soon formed behind me and people started passing me on double lines in hilly terrain with no visibility as to what lies over the hill. I was thinking to myself: here I am about to cause a heaad-on collision because the police made me obey an unreasonable law.

Auto_Fan - 10/8/2007 9:30:18 PM

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Probably that accident rates are not going through the roof if people drove little bit faster, but when I think about it, you only need one accident to be dead or severely injured!!!

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huu76 - 10/8/2007 9:35:54 PM

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Hey Germany, read this.
http://www.thestar.com/OntarioElection/article/264584

Two punk ass kids driving around in their mom and dad's deutsch cars killed two women in a 5 car accident. They were going 70km/h above the posted limit. This happened the same week our new legislation kicked in.

btw, Germany's freedom is guaranteed by those 80,000+ US service men and women guarding your useless country.

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Matthew1 - 10/9/2007 12:31:32 AM

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Go fall into a hole or something.

I think everyone is sick of your elitist, 'greater than thou' arrogant attitude.

You are more of a political stirrer than a car fan, and this shows in the incredibly biased, ill-informed bulls**t that you spew onto these threads.

huu76 - 10/8/2007 9:39:04 PM

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Here's another example that speed kills.
http://www.thestar.com/article/263510
I'll note that the other driver was intoxicated, those two fast and furious bitches would more than likely have avoided him if they weren't so jacked up on Viagra.

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AgentOrange - 10/9/2007 12:19:22 PMView My AgentSpace

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Settle down Beavis.....

Bmw8ter - 10/8/2007 9:46:22 PM

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If you've every driven the QEW, then you know about that big 8 lane bridge, I think in Burlington, where people push their cars to upwards of 240kph. My car couldn't keep up, but there are plenty of people at any given moment on there, racing each other; it's crazy. If you slow down, you're bound to get nailed by one of them.

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I95SPEEDINGTICKETS - 10/9/2007 11:24:37 AM

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huu76

You are a "Compound Fool"

Speed does not kill, Bad Driving Kills.

You think there is nothing unusual with the fact that Speed Limits that were set over 60 years ago have not been revised to reflect the huge Leap in vehicle performance and safety between then and now ?

Vehicles now can come to a complete halt in less than half the measured stopping distances of the 1950s Suspension & tyre technology advances means that vehicles of today can Corner at much higher speeds than back then so why keep the outdated Speed Limits unless you just wish to use it as a Revenue Generating Machine ?

Ironically because of the Silly Limits, the N/A automakers can get away with producing horrible vehicles with horrible handling because as far as they are concerned, if you stick to the Speed Limits, you should be fine, thus getting away with producing Sub-Par Vehicles (Leaf Spring Rear Suspension on Sports Cars???? ) Hell on any passenger Vehicle in the 21st century this would be laughable in any other country, but not the good old US of A.

Then you have the Irresponsible Driver Teaching & Testing Methods, again with such Fatal Flaws in the Teaching & Testing Methods it would not matter if the limit was reduced to 40 mph and everybody kept within the limits, People would still try to do their Make-Up or read the Newspaper or Eat Lunch while driving and they will still cause Pile-Ups.

I have been in Georgia in rain storms when everyone is going 40mph and still see 12-15 car pile-ups. You have to be retarded to be involved in something like that but i see it all the time over there.

But as you are one of those, i doubt you will understand any of what i just wrote.

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noname00 - 10/9/2007 12:56:11 PM

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Wikipedia:
* 30–50 km/h (20–30 mph) within school and playground zones
* 40–50 km/h (25–30 mph) on residential streets within cities and towns
* 60–70 km/h (35–45 mph) on major arterial roads in urban and suburban areas
* 80–90 km/h (50–55 mph) on highways outside cities and towns and urban expressways
* 90–110 km/h (55–70 mph) on freeways and rural expressways
Canada really needs roads outside cities where you can drive at ~100 mph (I'm 23, so 100 mph looks slow, but for a 70 year old is preety fast)

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