i dont understand what you are saying…
you are saying that the current law (roadside seizure) makes the roads safer? or that the thing mentioned with the $9.72 per km makes it safer because people wont run it its just a ticket?
I do beleive that the current law makes the highways less safe because it makes 100% rational sense to try and run. Especially when you have a car 2-3 times faster than police cars, which most of ours are. I don’t care if they are driving the new challengers or whatever, those things are boats.
Then when you consider that the police are ‘on the take’ where the tow trucks and the impound lots are paying them points off the tow and impound bills. there is already one police officer up on charges for this…
Also, you never hear about guys getting away on the news… but trust me, more than half of the people who run get away. The chasing officer calls ahead and gives a half hearted chase but they are not going to take a crown vic up to 220kph to get you… they’ll rely on cameras and other officers to intercept… so get the off the highway asap when out of sight and you’ve got a shot i guess
to restate, it makes GOOD sense to run if you have the slightest opportunity to because you’ll be facing road-side seizure, $2k - $10k fine, loss of license, $500 - $1000 in towing and impoound fees from chaser lots (rogue towing operations that are rampant in the GTA… these guys are hungry because the insurance companies are trying to fight them with by laws… this 50+ law is a way for them to maintain revenue streams)
Even before that though, the flaw i see in this law is that the punishment doesnt matter. No amount of punishment can stop speeding.
They have the death penalty in much of the US but people still kill each other by the thousands there even though they know that if they get caught they’re going to be KILLED!!!
You know why? because they do not consider the consequences when they commit the act.
Speeding is not a rataional decision. Seconds before you begin breaking the speed limit by 50kph you don’t contemplate the cost/benefit of the decision. You never average out the cumulative sum of all the minutes saved by arriving early times income (if applicable) and subtract that from the costs of getting caught tiimes the percentage liklihood of getting caught.
you speed because at that very moment you feel like speeding.
If they gave us the death penalty for 50kph over that wouldnt stop speeding… because we do not consider getting caught when we do it.
That is why speding has’nt declined with this law. And it never will.
The stuff that whomever started this thread is talking about… $9.72 per km, court summons etc. is the way it used to be handled which is essentially the same in every way other than you didnt get your car seized on the side of the road.
The whole thing was just a flamboyant effort to further Michael Bryant’s career… Thank god for drunk cyclists.