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To: John Semmens

Revoking a license and amputation of both legs at the hip seems like a much better idea.

On October 30th I lost a good friend to a distracted driver who blew through a crossroads onto 17N and T-boned. My friend died before sunup 10 hours later and his widow is still hospitalized.

Why the driver was not charged with anything beyond reckless driving is beyond me.


17 posted on 11/25/2023 1:17:47 AM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Clutch Martin

Here in Ontario, Canada the penalties under our no-fault insurance as of before your accident are as follows, in no particular order, and incomplete, in layman’s terms:

1. Criminal: Indictable (choice of judge or judge + jury): At least a couple of months incarceration, included as the minimum 2 yeas under supervision (parole); *OR*

A summary conviction, trial by Judge alone, that can involve as little as an Absolute Discharge and no Public Record of conviction. Fighting it without a plea all but guarantees probation for up to two years less a day.

2. Insurance: The driver will be effectively uninsurable because the next consequence is that a year’s insurance will cost more than buying a good used car and paying with cash.

3. Ontario Highway Traffic Act: A lifetime licence suspension, with “lifetime” defined as “until the driver smartens up”.

And that, FRiend, is just a few reasons that driving in America, until established otherwise, will always be considered dangerous to everyone *except* those anyone who thinks he “knows” that America’s roads are the safest in the world.


35 posted on 11/25/2023 7:18:56 PM PST by Squawk 8888 (I don't run; if you see me running, you should run too.)
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