Toronto Traffic Ticket

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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