Canadian Drivers
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Canadian Drivers
I'm not really sure which forum to post this in, so I'll put it here, if it needs to be somewhere else please move it.
To all of you Canadian drivers, when you're down here in The States driving. If you're driving in a state that puts points on a person's driver's license, what happens when you get home?
Tonight (Friday evening), as I was riding home (after having been harassed by a motorist) I happened upon a cop giving a driver a ticket for an accident that he had caused by violating the other drivers right-of-way.
It turns out that said driver was Canadian, and the cop explained that if he'd been a Florida driver that he'd have three points added to his license, but with the driver having been from Canada he wasn't sure how it would work.
So does anyone here know how it works?
To all of you Canadian drivers, when you're down here in The States driving. If you're driving in a state that puts points on a person's driver's license, what happens when you get home?
Tonight (Friday evening), as I was riding home (after having been harassed by a motorist) I happened upon a cop giving a driver a ticket for an accident that he had caused by violating the other drivers right-of-way.
It turns out that said driver was Canadian, and the cop explained that if he'd been a Florida driver that he'd have three points added to his license, but with the driver having been from Canada he wasn't sure how it would work.
So does anyone here know how it works?
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It's up to the driver to follow the laws in whatever jurisdiction he/she may be driving in (which is true for all legal matters; I can't travel to the US and commit a crime even if the same action would be legal in Canada). However, I don't think there's any significant differences between Canadian and American traffic safety regulations.
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I'm from Ontario. Ontario and New York State have an agreement with respect to vehicle violations in each others territory. If I get a speeding ticket while travelling in New York, I can eventually expect to see the appropriate demerit points on my Ontario driving record. That won't necessarily be the case in other provinces or states. Al
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I'm from Ontario. Ontario and New York State have an agreement with respect to vehicle violations in each others territory. If I get a speeding ticket while travelling in New York, I can eventually expect to see the appropriate demerit points on my Ontario driving record. That won't necessarily be the case in other provinces or states. Al
Or say he violated a 3ft law, well there is no corresponding law here so any charge would not be reflected as such here. It's not so simple as appears.
He is still required to pay the fine, but really it only matters if he wants to keep a financial standing in Florida.
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This is correct, their must be an agreement between that state and his home province in order to exchange demerit points.
Or say he violated a 3ft law, well there is no corresponding law here so any charge would not be reflected as such here. It's not so simple as appears.
He is still required to pay the fine, but really it only matters if he wants to keep a financial standing in Florida.
Or say he violated a 3ft law, well there is no corresponding law here so any charge would not be reflected as such here. It's not so simple as appears.
He is still required to pay the fine, but really it only matters if he wants to keep a financial standing in Florida.
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According to CAA, if a Canadian driver has an unpaid fine in an American jurisdiction, that driver may be held at the border. If the fine does remain unpaid, that driver's license to drive in that particular jurisdiction will be revoked, and if pulled over again even years later, that driver can face arrest.
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So it's probably in his best interest to pay his fine.