| 19 December |
Ontario’s Street Racing Law a Good Idea? |
Ontario’s new law is that if a vehicle is caught racing 50km/h passed the limit, they are automatically classified as a street racer. They are also automatically fined a minimum of $2000.00 dollars that can run anywhere up to $10,000.00. An automatic seven day suspension is given, and if you are caught for a second time its an automatic 10 year suspension is issued. Is that a good enough deterrent? Apparently not. This is because most who are speeding at that excess are not street racing.
The street racer my be a 40 year old woman, for example, that is late for work. Is that possible? Now think about it, should she be classified as a street racer? Should she be “automatically” accused of that? What if someone was driving down a hill, “automatically” their car will increase speed by 30 km/h. If they were already doing 10-15 over, they have already exceeded the limit. But yes, I really understand exactly why we should call them street racers.
Speeding in general should have been the focus, not street racing. Not that street racing is really the main harm for anything. For example, out of all accidents on the road that have caused death, only .12 percent were caused by street racing. All others were due to drunk driving, driving while fatigued, or any other form of driving mishaps.
So, once again, they MAY NOT BE STREET RACING, how can we be sure? Funny though, how Canadian Government has earned over $2 million dollars, thanks to all the “street racers” that were late for work.
To re-emphasize my point, are we teaching are teenagers and young drivers to falsely accuse others? Yes, these drivers should be deterred. It should end, but not in the way of falsely accusing a huge number of people. If that’s the generation we want to raise, the morals we want to teach, then good job ONTARIO, we are on top of the line.
By: Hannah Grace
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