Toronto Traffic Ticket

Hi this is Dan on behalf of Expert Village and this is using your attitude to avoid getting a speeding ticket.  Now I am not talking about the attitude you pull when the cop pulls you over.

This is some still preparation worth that you are going to want to use talking your driving attitude.  Do you screw your tyres at the red lights?  Do you fly past cops on the right?  Do you speed in residential areas?  Your driving attitude is a bigger thing that cops look for.  If a cop sees a high head, cops want to put the high head out.  Avoid doing actions such as those, another thing you want to watch out for is leaving in and out of traffic.

We will talk more about this later, but you want to avoid an attitude that draws attention to yourself and another thing to be very cautious of is as I said in residential areas anywhere where little children could be wandering around.  Not only is this a good attitude to take as far as avoiding a ticket, its just common sense.  Other aspects to watch for in your driving attitude include being alert are you testing as you drive are you on your cell phone are you trying to put on your make up, this is something cops look for also do you tail gate when you drive?  Cops watch your general attitude towards other drivers.  Do you use your blinkers when you change lens when you turn?  When you come to a stop let you come to a complete stop.  If you are going to speeding you want to be sure to do everything else in such a way that cops won’t be able to see you… you won’t pull up on the cop’s radar.  Your driving attitude is very critical in this.

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On behalf of Expert Village and this is avoiding a speeding ticket.  We are going to talk about many different ways to avoid getting a ticket, but first we are going to talk about knowledge.

You want to know everything you can about the area you are going to be driving in.  You never want to speed in a location that you do not know where the cops are.  Cops can hide almost anywhere and if you don’t know where they are coming from and if you fled past them you are going to get a speeding ticket.  When I am speeding down the road I know where the cops are hiding.  I know where the radar guns are.  I know where the speed limit drops really suddenly from 55 to 35.

You want to watch out for these things, so you don’t get caught by surprise if you know your areas it’s going to help out quite a bit.  What you also want to know is your local laws and your local law enforcement agency.  Does your local enforcement agency have a code that they need to get are they going to be able to give you a ticket in one area that they wouldn’t be able to give you on another area road.  Pay attention to these things and it will help you avoid a speeding ticket.

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Female Speaker1:  Whether you are traveling by car, truck or motorcycle California drivers across the States, bridges and toll roads are supposed to pay their fair share.  The surprising number of drivers are cheating the system.  A clear coat spray called photo blocker is helping many drivers avoid tolls and costly tickets.

Shaun Wang:  It gives a high gloss finish on your license plate and what that does is it over exposes to the light cameras.

Female Speaker1:  Distributor Shaun Wang says that the company that makes photo blocker isn’t trying to help people skirt the law, instead it hopes to give drivers a fighting chance against what he says is faulty photo flash technology.  Officials acknowledge many drivers are not purposely trying to cheat the system.  They say in many cases trailer hitches or large license plate frames get in the way of toll cameras preventing authorities from sending those drivers a ticket.  When drivers use photo blocker to obscure their license plates the Bay area toll authority showed us the blank images that result.  Street law maker such as Southern California’s Mimi Walters says deliberately trying to evade a toll is illegal and she says its time to put the breaks on toll cheats.

Mimi Walters:  Right now the toll roads down to my area are losing roughly half a million dollars a month by people evading tolls.

Female Speaker1:  Walter says no one knows exactly how much money is lost due to photo blocker, but there is enough concern about it that a move is now under way in the State Legislature to ban it.

Mimi Walters:  What we want to try to do is have people think twice before they actually use this spray because the alternative to using this spray and it not working is facing six months in jail or a $1000 fine.

Female Speaker1:  The Assembly Appropriations Committee unanimously passed the bill and now its headed to the assembly floor.  Drivers we talked with said they have mixed feelings about the proposed ban.

Female Speaker2:  I think they are sure that people are going to find a way to get pass the new way.

Male Speaker1:  All of us have to pay, I mean there is a reason of what we are paying is that keep up the bridge anyhow so why should you cheat it out?

Male Speaker1:  Now if the proposed ban makes it to the Governor’s desk and he signs it into law, authorities could face an even bigger challenge since photo blocker is invisible to the naked eye, how would authorities can force the ban on something they are unable to see.

Hi my name is Shaun Appler, Investigator with the Wrightsville Beach Police Department and on behalf of Expert Village I am here to talk to you today about what to do when you are being stopped by the police.

Now while the officers approach and the when the officers are talking to you remember one thing, keep your hands where the officer can see in.  Remember what I said earlier, the officer’s mind set is that he wants to go home safe at the end of his shift.  He probably has a family, people that he loves, people he wants to go home and see.  He doesn’t know you anymore and you know him but the thing is that he wants to make sure that he is not going to be hurt.

If you keep your hands whether or not you have a weapon in the car you keep your hands where the officer can see him, he is going to feel lot more comfortable talking to you.  If you start [Inaudible], I need to see behind the seat, behind your back typically these are places where weapons were concealed and the officer is going to be nervous and he also may draw his weapon and so make sure you keep your hands where the officer can see in.  Another good point I am going to tell you is if you don’t want up to right and round counter bundling on your seat, don’t go on trying to hide it, all right.  The officers are trying to see that while they are stopping you, while they are walking up to the car, its going to make the officer know this because you maybe trying to hide a weapon.  Its going to create a whole lot more problems for you.  If you are not smart enough to be right and round all the stuff lying on your seat, chances are you have been caught just go ahead and be honest with the officer.

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Male Speaker1:  Pictures are typically fun to get in the mail unless there are viewed speeding or running a red light accompanied by a ticket.

Female Speaker1:  Those are not [Inaudible] to get but now dozens of companies sell products promising to make your car unidentifiable to law enforcement cameras that do their work and are they legal?  The trouble shooter investigates these new products and has the new you need to know before buying.  Here is Fox 31’s Tom Martino.

Tom Martino:  You know what that white band means?  You know what the flash means and I guess you know what this means?  This guy isn’t happy he got caught by photo radar.  Cameras do a good job catching law breakers some speeders like showing their feelings when they are caught others try to beat the system if you want to protect your rear end keep it in the car and take a look at some products that promise to outsmart photo radar.  Two of the products are special plate covers, one is a special spray, do they really disguise your license plate numbers?  We put these to the test to find out.  The Denver police Department agreed to help us with other test.

Male Speaker2:  Well what we did is we went out the Denver Police driving truck that we set up a simulated 20 mile an hour speed limit.

Tom Martino  We tested all three devices using this city’s photo radar equipment did they work here are the phots from our test drive.  The first plate cover looks like a prism and is supposed to distort plate numbers when viewed from an angle.  Their second plate cover has reflective sparkles and it did a better job the flash reflected off the sparkle so the plate number was over exposed in the picture.  The third product is a spray that worked really well.  It puts a high gloss finish on your plate which causes a reflection and that makes the plate over exposed.  So if you are going to use a plate blocker I suggest this spray the reflective spray does not obstruct plate number from the naked eye at all and nowhere the laws does it say your plate must be photogenic besides officers would not even notice it.  There will always be some who was then the big brother approach to law enforcement.  Where do you stand I am Trouble Shooter Tom Martino Fox 31 news.

Female Speaker1:  Well Tom got the products he tested from phantomplate.com

Hi my name is Shaun Appler, Investigator with the Wrightsville Beach Police Department and on behalf of Expert Village, I am here to talk to you today about what to do when you are being stopped by the police.

I want you to pull over the side of the road or to the side of the park and later on the side street.  Once you have done that, remain in your vehicle.  Resist the urge to want to get out, and explain yourself to the Officer right away.  Don’t worry he is going to come up and talk to you.  Stay in the vehicle now unless the Officer tells you different.

Now we will cover that we will cover more about what you do after the Officer approaches in a second here but let me tell you first, if the Officer asks you to get out, he doesn’t need a reason, going to the Supreme court; he doesn’t need a reason to ask you to step out of the vehicle.  If you request that you do wait till he does, but if he does ask you step out go ahead and comply with the officer, the same goes for the passengers.  If the passenger is in a vehicle Supreme Court says an Officer can actually ask the passengers to step out and he doesn’t need a reason to do it.  Most of the times you will find that the officers are asking for safety issues so remember the same theme safety.

If you are on a busy highway and the Officer doesn’t feel comfortable standing on the side of your car where traffics going by because he may get struck by a passing vehicle, he is going to go ahead and ask you step out stand up to the side of the road.  So just remember stay in your vehicle until directed otherwise by the Officer and if the Officer does direct you otherwise, comply with what he asks you to do.

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