Fail to stop at Red light ...
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From: Kitchener
I don't wanna get into a whole lecture about the legal system, but you can't just look at provisions of the Highway Traffic Act to see what the driving laws are. Statutes delegate regulatory power to the executive Governor in Council and/or to a municipal council, which means you also have to read by-laws and regulations that affect the statutory provisions. Then after that you have to look at all the common law interpretations that courts have given that specific statutory provision; a law that you have to stop at an intersection in order to avoid hazards means nothing until a judge interprets what is a reasonable period of time to stop to avoid hazards. It can be 3 sec, 5 sec, or whatever he decides. The moral of this story is we in the legal community make the law so complicated that we force the average person like you to hire us as lawyers to interpret the law lol
I just think one shouldn't look at the driving manual and driving exam requirements for legal standards. There are a lot of things in there that are required to be done to pass an exam but no way would be a violation if you weren't doing them in real life; and I'm pretty sure they didn't come from case law or statutes, but then again, I could be wrong.
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