Accident Traffic Ticket Facts
- Less than 10% of all police officers in Ontario receive specific, detailed accident investigation training.
- A conviction for a careless driving ticket can increase insurance rates thousands of dollars per year for three to six years.
- Most officers receive only rudimentary accident investigation instruction at Police College.
- Officers receive more training on proper completion of the accident report for Ministry of Transportation statistical purposes than actual investigative techniques.
- Many Police Officers don’t even know how to determine the “point of impact” or properly analyze skid marks.
- Police Officers in Ontario are not issued the Highway Traffic Act
- Officers are only issued a “wording booklet” which gives them an abbreviated wording of the charges of the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario, the section number and the amount of fines to be entered on the certificate.
- In 2002, only 3 officers at the Toronto Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police, (one of the largest traffic units in Canada) had any “post Aylmer” accident investigation training at all. One of those was former Toronto Police Constable Chris Conway. Chris later founded OTT Legal Services.
- Accident investigators from the Toronto Police receive accident investigation training that is second to none in North America.
It is important to have a trained person review your case to give you the best opportunity at reducing or even reversing “fault determination” for your traffic ticket. When Insurance rate increases can occur for up to six years, fighting your traffic ticket can save you thousands of dollars.
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