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Originally Posted by transplant99
This guy was excessively speeding for about 5 seconds in a controlled manner to get past slower traffic...an impaired driver is impaired the entire time they are behind the wheel in any particular instance.
Nothing alike at all
Again, this isnt about the act itself, its about the punishment being meted out before any ability is presented to defend oneself.
I have 1 speeding ticket in the last 15 years i believe it is, so this law has little affect on me, and i just finished well over 3000KM in BC the last 5 weeks or so. In fact i drove past that horrifying wreck in Rogers pass on Saturday...one in which this law is supposed to help negate apparently. Trouble is, there was no avoiding that wreck regardless of speed in reality as one guy just simply lost track of where he was on a newly paved road without lines and drifted into the wrong lane.
The law is both far to harsh in its penalty and completely unconstitutional IMO. Much like the .05 law, this will eventually be ruled as such and all those who have been affected will have no recourse as they have already lost all that time and money.
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So what's the difference between that and being arrested and taken off to jail for suspicion of a crime? Isn't the only difference the act itself and how serious we consider it? If someone goes 200k in a playground zone I don't want them to simply get a ticket and get sent on their way. I they are going 10k over a ticket and a fine feels Ok. I dunno where I draw the line, but to me there is a line there somewhere.
If to you it's never ok then fair enough.