The fine for speeding at 115/100 is $37.50, then the government adds a “Victim Fine Surcharge” (read as tax) on the speeding ticket of approx 20 percent making what they call the “total payable” of $52.50.

If you pay the speeding or traffic ticket, the ticket goes on your driving record for 3 year to which your insurance company has access to and basis your insurance rates upon. To fight the speeding ticket you have to go to the jurisdiction where the ticket was issued, so you cannot have your speeding ticket trial transferred to the Brampton Traffic Courts, the trial will be in Cobourg.

The police officers can have radar in the cars, handheld laser radars, and can pace vehicles to determine the speed. The police are allowed to use any form of speed measurement that they choose.

There is no rule or law that the officer has to verbally tell you how much you were speeding. If the police charge you with an offence they have to tell you what they are charging you with. When the speeding ticket comes to court, the officer in their evidence would tell the Judge the exact speed they recorded you at.

The ticket the officer gave you doesn’t have any demerit points on it, but if you pay the ticket it will go on your driving record for three years to which your insurance company has access to and can base your rates upon. You always want to try to keep your driving record clean if possible.

The insurance company only sees that you were convicted of a speeding ticket. They don’t care whether you lost/gained any demerit points or not, its the Ministry of Transportation that looks at demerit points, not your insurance company. Your insurance company looks at convictions, and then what are the convictions e.g minor speeding tickets and major convictions like Careless Driving.

When the officer drops the ticket to under 15km most times they are hoping you will pay the ticket. Or there are issues surrounding the ticket that the officer may not feel confident about. The officer believes that most people seeing that there are no demerit points on the ticket will just pay the fine and not fight it. Usually the officer is either inexperienced or they don’t like going to court, but many times its a sign of an inexperienced police officer.

As such the odds of winning your case are very high but they are not 100 percent, about 85% of these types of tickets go away at trial. We win these cases on technical arguments because usually the officer doesn’t have the trial experience that we have.

When you go yourself unless you know how to run a trial and the technical aspects of a speeding ticket, then all you can do is just hope that the officer does not come to court. If you hire a paralegal to defend you your odds of winning go up dramatically because they know the right questions to ask.

At the court the if your fighting the ticket the prosecutor can always ask to put the ticket up to the original speed, but it rarely happens. And if your at the court and it looks like everything is done properly, you can always through in the towel at anytime and have the speed written on the ticket.

My suggestion is that you should always fight every traffic ticket to avoid it going on your driving record and insurance.

The second question is if I decide to pay it, will my premuim insurance be affected?

The third question is to know if I decide to fight it. will I have to go to Cobourg for the court day or my case can be transfered to Brampton court /peel region?

The fourth question is how the polices officers determine the speed limit that somebody is driving with? do they have a radar in the cruiser or other device to measure the speed of other driver?

Thank you in advance for answer.

The location does not have to be exact and the officer can just put “The East Mall” the officer does have to put what municipality the speeding ticket happened in to correspond with the location, so your ticket would have to say “S/B (southbound) The East Mall Toronto” to be correct.

When the ticket came to court the police officer would have to give evidence to the court as to what the speed limit was at the location that they stopped you at.

If you just want to pay the ticket you can pay any speeding ticket at any court house in Ontario. If you want to fight the speeding ticket, have a look on the back of the ticket, if you phone the court, the court staff will usually be able to tell you if you can mail your request for a trial notice for you.

The court doesn’t convict the driver of the ticket until 45 days after the offence date. So you have at least 30 days to get the ticket into the court.

Thanks.

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