The Safer Roads for a Safer Ontario Act has been discussed a few times on CP. In case you missed it, this is the law that allows Ontario Police to impound your car if you are caught committing some of the prescribed acts (e.g., speeding 50 km/hr over the limit).
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=48341
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=44112
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Ottawa...31646-sun.html
Well, 76 year old Norman Harding was charged with stunting after a police officer clocked him doing 130 km/hr in an 80 km/hr zone. He says he was taking his wife to a non-emergency doctor appointment and plans to challenge the law in court:
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Harding feels the new Safer Roads for a Safer Ontario Act was aimed at street racers, not an elderly man in a hurry driving his wife to a non-emergency doctor's appointment.
"Hopefully, I can explain to them that I am not this kind of person," said the soft-spoken man of his Feb. 21 court date in Killaloe.
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What do you think? Valid excuse? Should the officer have exercised some discretion/compassion?