Vehicle Insurance
Inquiry: can the police tell by your plates,if you have car insurance? Response: A Police Officer may contact an insurance company to verify the status of insurance coverage. Operating a motor vehicle without insurance carries exceptionally high fines ($6,250 to $31,250 total payable fine on a first offence). If you have been charged with operating […]
Incorrect Postal Code On Summons
Inquiry: I Was Just Pulled Over In Toronto On Danforth And I Got 3 Tickets 1 For No Insurance 1 For Use Plate Not Authorized For Motor Vehicle And 1 For Fail To Apply For Permit And Become Owner I Got Home And Looked Over The Ticked And Noticed That On All 3 Tickets They Had Got My […]
Unpaid Fines and Licence Suspension – 2012-08-25
Inquiry: Hello. I have 1 unpaid ticket for “Driving without liability insurance” from 2008. They suspended my license in 2009 and i haven’t been able to get it back since. I have called the collection agency numerous times and they wont work with me on a payment plan. They want a deposit and then a big monthy payment […]
Insurance Issues
Inquiry: hello. the cop stopped me and asked for insurance i searched in the car but did not find it cause i cleaned the car that day unfortunatlly i found the insurance slip in my car trunk inside with the insurance compay contract. but it was too late cause the cop left and i found […]
Unpaid Fines and Licence Suspension – 2012-03-17
Inquiry: our daughter has unpaid fines totaling $7300.00 from a car accident and another incident before the accident of having no insurance and a expired plate in Ontario .she left and moved out west doing nothing about the fines . Since then they have been given to a collection company, she is still driving in […]
Headlight Headache…
Inquiry: i was stopped due to a headlight was off. it came back on while the officer was checking my license & my insurance was not valid. the light came back on an he just gave me a ticket for failure to show proof of insurance?? what are my rights as that was the only […]
Drive M/V – No Licence and Fail To Yield From Private Drive
Inquiry: Hello, I got into a car accident a month ago and we did not report it (me or the person i hit). well over a month later i get a call from the police saying they know i was in an accident and have tickets to issue me. being well over 30 days the […]
Jail Time
Inquiry: Hi, I wanted to inquire on what the minimum and maximum jail time would be for these four offences which are all first time offences: 1. Fail to Identify Self 2.Operate Motor Vehicle without Insurance 3. Drive motor vehicle without a licence present 4. Drive motor vehicle without current validation on plate Thank you! […]
Youthful Indiscretions
Inquiry: Like 5 years ago i was fixing a mopad with one of my friends we had it fixed and had it running for 2 days we would drive it back and forth on a side street and the police pulled me over and said i got like 5000$ in tickets i was younger and […]
In Debt To The Court
Inquiry: I recieved a fine for driving without insurance 15 years ago, at the same time I was charged with driving without a licence which I served 2 weeks in jail. For the past 15 years I’ve been unable to pay this fine so I’ve basically done nothing about it and gone without a drivers […]