Speeding Tickets
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Speeding Tickets
Anyone have experince with speeding tickets and out of province plates?
If you ever switch to alberta plates, will it show up then? If you don't pay it?
If you ever switch to alberta plates, will it show up then? If you don't pay it?
The speeding ticket isn't issued to your plates, but to your drivers licence. Even if you were to change your drivers licence to another province, the records carry on. I suggest you take to court and settle for a plea bargain, usually in Ontario they reduce upto 2-3 points and about 25-40% off your fine.
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That's true. I've done it before. You just take it to court. If the cop doesn't show up, you say, "I wasn't speeding." and it get's thrown out.RVR6000 wrote: I suggest you take to court and settle for a plea bargain, usually in Ontario they reduce upto 2-3 points and about 25-40% off your fine.
If the cop shows up, you tell the judge, "Hey, that's a lot of money. I'm broke these days." Never got any leeway with the points, but I've had the fines reduced every time.
Better luck next time.
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Been there done that... the cost of tickets is the least of your worries. Just wait till your insurance company catches up with them. I got called in for an interview by MOT as I got 3 in 6 months. It took 3 years of clean driving to get my insurance to drop to where it was before the tix.
Good luck.
Good luck.
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When you go BC-AB you just pass over your old license pay the fee and get a new one. They don't need your abstract etc.
When you buy insurance you need two forms. Your claims history and your driver abstract.
Abstract shows stuff from previous 6 years and if you have more than one ticket it will affect your rates.
As for paying fines. F-dat - BC isn't going to come get you and AB could give a shit. In fact I had some old AB fines on my BC license that I didn't pay from years ago and not a mention of it when I switched out...
Thanks god I'm outta the BC system - it is all a cash grab from the enormous fines and chump cops to ICBC and their shit monopoly. It is all a big conflict of interest...
When you go BC-AB you just pass over your old license pay the fee and get a new one. They don't need your abstract etc.
When you buy insurance you need two forms. Your claims history and your driver abstract.
Abstract shows stuff from previous 6 years and if you have more than one ticket it will affect your rates.
As for paying fines. F-dat - BC isn't going to come get you and AB could give a shit. In fact I had some old AB fines on my BC license that I didn't pay from years ago and not a mention of it when I switched out...
Thanks god I'm outta the BC system - it is all a cash grab from the enormous fines and chump cops to ICBC and their shit monopoly. It is all a big conflict of interest...
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There is no reciprocity agreement between provinces; a cop told me that when he volunteered if I didn't pay the BC fine there was nothing they could do about it. I wonder why he told me that. Just don't get caught even farting in BC for the next three years or it'll come back to haunt you.merlin wrote:cop told me there is no points against me because I'm from out of province. and in BC one speeding ticket isn't going to make your insurance go up. but my problem being I need to switch over to AB system, and I'm wondering if it will show up on my lisence?
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Well, after having been harassed by a collections agency all summer, over a ticket that I got in Kenora in 2000, I'd say that you'd be a bit further ahead paying the damn thing and not having to worry about it. The harassment was kinda funny, as it was my home #, and I was away working all summer, while the Mrs was in Japan, so there was no-one around to take the calls. One a week, I'd check the messages, and take great delight in erasing them. Come fall, and it was beyond a joke. $120 later, no phone calls, and no risk of being held in cells in Kenora if I ever get caught speeding there again.
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You could have just blocked the number.North Shore wrote:Well, after having been harassed by a collections agency all summer, over a ticket that I got in Kenora in 2000, I'd say that you'd be a bit further ahead paying the damn thing and not having to worry about it. The harassment was kinda funny, as it was my home #, and I was away working all summer, while the Mrs was in Japan, so there was no-one around to take the calls. One a week, I'd check the messages, and take great delight in erasing them. Come fall, and it was beyond a joke. $120 later, no phone calls, and no risk of being held in cells in Kenora if I ever get caught speeding there again.