Topic: $12,000 speeding ticket issued in Alberta...

[johngenx]

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=eb613db9-87c9-4268-8d93-30ac12b1dbce

[von_khan]

Yikes... 

[The Mighty Duck]

The driver, a Hinton resident, struck a deal with the Crown prosecutor that allowed him to keep his licence in exchange for the high fine, said Lyons.

Earlier this summer, the Hinton Traffic Court slapped an $8,500 fine on a 25-year-old Prince George, B.C., man for driving 206 km/h on the same stretch of highway...  Lyons said he believed that man also struck a deal with the prosecutor to keep his licence.

Wouldn't it be better just to take these maniac's lisences away? 

[rrocket]

Wouldn't it be better just to take these maniac's lisences away? 

Ah but if they did that, they would make as much $$$$.  It's  business to them...

[duck]

I am loving the high fines.  Hopefully one day the government will make enough money and  reduce personal income taxes.   Did the last sentence make anysense 

[safristi]

 WELL!!! ...TarSandsOIL BEEF OCT.......................not...............

[tenpenny]

Wouldn't it be better just to take these maniac's lisences away? 

But if you did that, the poor dears wouldn't be able to drive to work, and it would be a hardship.

[dr_spock]

Wouldn't it be better just to take these maniac's lisences away? 

Maybe for the public good but he hasn't killed anyone yet. 

[random006]

Those are eye popping fines, for sure.

I can only hope that the idiots mentioned in the various news items above took the object lesson to heart.

Did they at least enjoy their drives?

[initial_D]

No wonder Timmies are busy. ... 

[prufrock]

Probably some rig pig with more cash than brains. I am sorry if that is stereotypical, but I see these idiots driving at reckless speeds all the time, often in company owned vehicles.

Then again, driving from the west towards Edmonton on the four lane divided highway, anyone doing the posted 110 will be passed by 95% of the traffic, most of which is doing closer to 140.

[Rupert]

Now we are getting somewhere. However, I thought that the driving behaviour out west was on the whole much better than in Ontario after being out there for two months. Back in Ont we witnessed three instances of life threatening sillyness in the first day. Not all speeding but blatent disregard for the rules of the road.

[johngenx]

Honestly, I'm shocked that there was a cop on the highway to write the ticket.  On highways 2 and 16 I have seen no enforcement for a long time.  Guys in company trucks drive at 140-160 pretty much all the time, and on highway 2 (Edmonton to Calgary) they drive very aggressively and I often see collisions involving them.

However, the worst highway in Alberta, by far, is to Fort Mac.  It's a death-race scenario with 25 year old guys driving 160+ in heavy traffic, passing in blind spots/corners and driving like lunatics.  If I were working there, I'd either fly in/out or quit my job, the highway is that bad.  No big paycheque is worth being killed by some rigpig...

[initial_D]

On Highway #2 between RD and Calgary, the RCMP often have patrol cars around Innisfail. The Highway Sheriffs have 24/7 shifts on #11 just West of RD in thew summer.

People who do excessive speeding shouldn't get off by simply paying a heavy fine.

[Rupert]

If these heavy fines started at 20km over the limit the rules regarding speed limits would be observed PDQ. For those who complain about speed limits being too low...maybe no limit is satisfactory for them...they just want to get ahead of the person in front of them all of the time. It's more like a game than transportation. Perhaps though, passing at a double continuous line when vision ahead is limited, is more reprehensible.

[barrie1]

I witnessed a really pathetic way for the OPP to catch speeders to-day on Hyw 3 just east of Leamington. WE had just left a carshow at the Heritage Museum down there when I was leading the pack and came upon a new small Ford product painted dark blue with blacked out windows. He was driving at speeds which varied from 10 mph under the legal 80 KLMS to the speed limit which was causing a jamup  behind me. I waited until it was the checkered lines and passed safely and of course sped p a bit to do so. I got about 300 feet ahead when the next truck behind me did the same at the next stretch of checkered markings as well. Halfway thru his pass a OPP cruiser appeared towards us and the truck pulled back in safely but the OPP cruiser turned around and came after us. He waited for a few minutes and then pulled the 2nd truck over. He charged him with speeding with being 25 over the limit and stated that the Blue Ford was a Bait car who had called me in for going bye them to begin with. Even tried to say the 2nd truck had been doing well over the 50 over and was going to impound it but relented as that was a blatand lie. I watched the whole move of the truck and he did not use excessive speed at all when he went bye him. I pulled over about 200 ft ahead but they didn't come after me at all. The rest of the convoy pulled in behind him and witnessed him as well but this smells like entrapment to me.