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143 km/h with five kids (three to 12 yo) unbuckled and sleeping in back seat. Grrr.
Driver stopped speeding on Hwy. 401 had five unbuckled children sleeping in backseat
A vehicle stopped speeding on Highway 401 in eastern Ontario had five children sleeping in the backseat without seatbelts on, according to Ontario Provincial Police.ottawa.ctvnews.ca
They seem to have a very hard time with moderation. If they get involved, it drops a grenade into the family that takes months or years to resolve. A gentle push/guidance would be better in many cases but I suspect they are terrified of headlines where they are involved and something bad happens. In this particular case, the driver obviously needs some help with critical thinking and risk assessment.
london.ctvnews.ca
Doing about 90 on Highway 10 you'll constantly be passed like you're standing still.
Good that they were caught but that rationale for the pull over is B.S.
Expired tags are a valid reason for a stop and can result in your car being "removed" from the road, i.e. towed. For that reason it can't even be referred to as a "pretextual stop" (otherwise known as a fishing expedition).
Maybe I misinterpreted. Did they check the registration and it came back expired, or did they just see "expired" stickers (i.e. no longer applicable) and decided to stop the vehicle? I guess we'll never know, they can run the plates while you wait after already pulled over.
They can run the plates while right behind you. They even have hook-ups on some vehicles to automatically scan and check plates. They can cruise the highways and pretty much pull over as many as they wish, on any given day.
Doing 90 on Highway 10 in rush hour is dangerous because you would be impeding the natural flow of traffic. I remember early morning commutes down that road over 10 years ago where the average speed was probably 110kph. Luckily I no longer need to commute, but the times I use it on the weekends I'm amazed at the speed of traffic that is passing me as I drive in the right lane with the cruise set just over 90kph.
I had reason to use it fairly frequently around rush hour, recently, because my mother was in hospice not too far off 10. Your speed estimate is accurate, however, there were more than a few cars that seems to be doing 120+. Perhaps 130.
They don't even pull over people with those dark tinted plate covers.
Which they should do. Anything that obscures any part of the plate is technically illegal, including those dealer provided plate surrounds. Something that makes it impossible to read a plate when it's 20 feet away, in bright sunlight, is obviously illegal.
Always check your wheel nuts within a few days after the wheels have been removed for any service. I do my own tire swaps and use a torque wrench when installing, then double check them within a few days. I once found loose wheel nuts after a shop did a brake job, so it's now routine for me to recheck the torque every time anyone removes a wheel.
Any shop I've gotten tires at lately wants you to drive a few km (10?) on them and then bring them back for a retorque.
That's why I change my tires myself. With a help of my best buddy Torque Wrench.
Even shops that ugga dugga bolts on mostly use torque sticks now so they shouldn't be balls tight. I suspect that in the interest of speed, the torque stick does all the work and the shop does a quick check with a torque wrench to make sure none were missed (and so they can say that a calibrated torque wrench was used if there is a lawsuit). It is easy to overtorque some this way if they don't have a good procedure (eg. torque stick should be below required torque and nut should move with torque wrench so you no you aren't over).
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