Red Light Tickets

The red light section of the Highway Traffic Act states;

“Every driver approaching a traffic control signal showing a circular red indication and facing the indication shall stop his or her vehicle and shall not proceed until a green indication is shown”.

Red light tickets have up to four (4) different penalties;

• Three (3) demerit points
• A three hundred and twenty five ($325.00) dollar fine
• A conviction registered on your driving record for three years
• Determination of fault in accident cases
• Possible insurance increases

Drivers with class G1 and G2 licences are suspended where they accumulate more than 4 demerit points.

Do everything possible to you driving record and insurance clean. Fight your traffic ticket by calling OTT.

When you call OTT Legal you will speak to former police officers and paralegals, all licensed by the Law Society of Upper Canada – people with actual court experience fighting red light traffic tickets.

We ensure that your case receives the attention it deserves.  We work to:

• properly represent you in court
• our goal is to have your traffic ticket dismissed
• we work to help you keep your insurance rates low
• we work to save your demerit points

In preparing your case for trial we order the officers notes and fully investigate your case. If there are any legal arguments to be filed, they are usually done at no extra charge to you.

“I recently had my red light ticket thrown out by OTT Legal. Please thank for all the people that worked to win my ticket. You are great. Once again excellent work, and l’ll keep referring your company. Ted B. Toronto, ON.”

Although fighting a red light ticket may sound simple, just going to court and telling the Justice that you didn’t go through the light won’t get the ticket canceled.  An explanation or “why you went through the red light” will not get your ticket dropped. You need a legal defence to the charge.

Red light traffic ticket trials are won on properly cross-examining the police officer, arguing legal issues and properly giving your defence to the charge. Call OTT Legal to discuss your traffic ticket.  There is no charge to discuss your case with a former police officer or licensed paralegal.

There are numerous issues that a qualified licensed paralegal of OTT Legal Services will be able to argue for your traffic ticket, for example;

• Did the police officer really see you “enter the intersection on a red traffic signal?”
• Were the traffic signals working properly?
• Where exactly is a driver actually required to stop when the light turns red;
  • in the intersection?
  • before the intersection?
  • before the crosswalk? or
  • before the stop line?
• If a car is traveling at fifty km/h, and an amber light is four (4) seconds long, how far, or how many feet does the vehicle travel in one second?
• As well as many other legal technicalities we can find to win your case.

Many times people who witness traffic accidents will tell the officer that one of the vehicles went through a red light. But did they see the driver go through the light or did they see the accident then look at the light and see that it was red?  The court has to have evidence that the driver “entered the intersection” on a red light.

When you appear in traffic court the government has stacked the case against you.

• the police will have a Provincial Prosecutor or Lawyer to assist them.
• they know the rules of traffic court.
• they have run hundreds of trials before, they have years of experience.
• they know the legal arguments to convict you.
• they know about time and distance calculations for red lights.
• they know how a red traffic signal is supposed to work.

OTT Legal has the legal experience to fight your red light ticket. There are numerous issues that a qualified licensed paralegal of OTT Legal Services will be able to argue for your traffic ticket.

Would you like to talk to someone about your red light ticket? Send us an email. We can help!

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