QwikKotaTX

Who knows. Every cop is different, I imagine.

T10Chris

One of my brothers is an officer (in a different jurisdiction than I live in, and this could vary from place to place) but he said there is not dividing line for must go to jail with regards to speeding or reckless. Just depends on the officer. He said he can take you to jail and impound the car for any speed over the limit and make you go through booking and post bail, or write the ticket and let you go home for 100 over and reckless. Lot of leeway there, which matches my experience with getting government sponsored fast driving awards throughout the country.

Capt. Obvious

LOLOL.

2fcknfst

This was way back in the day, it is no longer like this in BC/AB - now, automatic impound, huge fine, mandatory court date.

Governance is killing all our fun.

2fcknfst

Likewise here; his radar has to sample three to four times to pin the speed, quick decel screws up that average.

2fcknfst

That is interesting - my god brother was a cop until he went into private security here in Vancouver, got to do a couple of the Cop Driving Days out at Boundary Bay, received some neat training, and it stuck.

In Canada, we have a formal charge called, Driving Without Due Care and Attention, and it is effectively left up to the officer to define what that is prior to writing the ticket. This usually includes a road side 'investigation' once they've pulled you over in an effort to define whether you were being a dick, or just driving fast. Brother told me that the way to handle that if pulled over and questioned, is to always be polite, don't argue, and focus on the skills needed to drive the vehicle fast - not to comment on listening to loud music, talking on the phone, or anything that would otherwise distract you from focusing on the road.

There are also exceptions to this, which will automatically draw that charge - an accident, with a debris field of greater than 500 feet, a witness, that can be verified, and direct observation by the officer of excessive speed, which used to be 100mph +, until they changed the laws where it is now 40kmh over the posted limit in BC, and anything over 150kmh in Alberta.

These updated laws directly influenced the way I drive on the highway; now, it's about maintaining the highest possible running average over a given distance, within the scope of the law.

The best section of road to do this on in BC is the Coke, where the posted limit is 120kmh, so you can run up to 160kmh and not worry about going to jail. The shortcoming is the section of road you can do this on is only 200kms long, so the best possible average (safely) is 150kmh (with a 10kmh cushion).

Which means, if you're really good, you can drive from Kamloops to Hope in 1h20m.