Hey everybody, I'm from Chicago doing some work here in Vancouver and I got pulled over a few nights back for "excessive speeding" and ticketed $368CAD. The stated that I was driving 110kmh going north on granville before the island. I don't think there was any way I was going that fast but I wasn't looking.

He stated that I was lucky that he didn't impound me for street racing (in my Chrysler pacifica rental car). You guys really don't mess around up here. Am I screwed or can I contest this?

I'll be here through 8/07 otherwise I'd just blow it off.

 

ouch 368CAD!!

but then 110km/h is kinda too fast for granville..the average speed limit around town is about 50km/h

g'luck with the ticket

 

well, your out of country so this case, hopefully just dispute it and by the time the case comes up youl be long gone from here. Plus unless you have a BC drivers lisc they really cant do anything to you.

I have a speeding ticket from when i was working in Phoenix az. I was on a AZ350 drive and while doing 120mph, some native reserve police chased me and attempted to try to radar me, however the Passport Rader detector worked pretty good. I slowd down and he pulled me over. Long story short, they gave me a ticket, he was aware i was out of country, not much he can do. But unlike canada, in the US, i hear you get warrants put out on you if you dont pay your speeding ticket.

Tie up our courts systems ( i know some of the members will give me shit about blah blah waste of court time and money and our taxes yada yada) and by the time its your court case, you wont be around.. The only disadvantage is the judge will make you pay for it. But if you just dont dispute the ticket, no way ICBC can make you pay for your ticket.

 

please dispute it..

and hopefully the cop who pulled you didnt attend the court,

if he did, you could kindly ask the judge to reduce the cost... I got my fine reduced by half by saying I am still in school and with my previous good driving record..

good luck

 

That is a tough one. It is difficult to dispute when your only defence is that you don't think you were going that fast. The courts tend to side with the police. That really sucks!