http://www.sootoday.com/content/news...ryNumber=35149

OPP NEWS RELEASE

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POITRAS TOWNSHIP, ON – (October 17) - An officer from the Highway Safety Division, North Bay, seized a fire truck yesterday afternoon on Highway 63 as a result of the Street Racing Legislation.

On October 16th, 2008, at approximately 6:30 pm, the officer was travelling on Highway 63 when he observed a vehicle overtake another vehicle near the crest of a hill.

The vehicle was travelling in excess of 70 km/h of the posted speed limit.

The driver, a fireman, was operating a Fire Department Emergency/Rescue Response vehicle, GMC Yukon.

He was not responding to an emergency call at the time.

As a result of his actions, John P. DANDY, 31 years old of Kipawa, Quebec, was charged under the Street Racing Legislation, s.172 and with Drive left of center – approaching crest of grade, s. 149 of the Highway Traffic Act.

His driver's licence was seized and suspended for seven days as well as the Fire Department Emergency/Rescue Response vehicle was towed and also seized for seven days.


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Heard about this a few days ago. Crazy ****.

 

quebec, figures

 

That's a dandy.

 

Ha!

 

You were reading Soo Today?

 

Just goes to show you the cops have no love for the other side.....even if your a fireman!

 

I'm sure they all watch out for each other (other cops, firemen, paramedics, etc) but I figure this French guy was a bit of an ***. Might have been an a-hole with the officer that pulled him over. He deserved it.

 

Nayyy

 

Bizarre.

 

That's pretty strange.

 

cop needs to get a life!!

 

ha they don't have lives up there.. They use to hackle me when I lived up there for my show car..

 

Yeah, no doubt. The cop should have gone after someone who was more deserving of being given a ticket. Imagine the nerve of that cop, stopping the guy just because he was doing 70 km over the limit and passing another car while approaching the crest of a hill.

 

I'm not meaning that guy should have been let free of it. In general there isn't major crimes.. 70 over is nuts

 

The real problem here isn't that the firefighter got nailed. The problem is that the HTA does not exempt emergency vehicles from being impounded under s.172.

Ontario law also requires a minimum 45-day impound of vehicles found being driven by people who have been disqualified from driving following conviction on certain criminal driving offences, but the HTA specifically exempts emergency vehicles from impound in such cases.

This is just common sense. Suspend the license of the driver sure, regardless of who it is, but the public interest is not served by having scarce resources like specially-equipped emergency equipment sitting in impound. I'm surprised thatthe government didn't provide a similar exemption when they enacted the racing/stunting law.

 

By the way, comments on a firefighter forum about this are kind of interesting. A bunch of firefighters don't seem too upset at all by the incident and figure the driver had it coming to him.

Another twist is that both the driver and the impounded fire truck were not from Ontario, but from a Quebec community. http://www.firehall.com/forum/showth...threadid=17176

 

yep, quebec....arrogant!

 

Say that again. I hate going through that stinkin province. I wished they separate back in 1995 during the Referendum so it'll be a shorter drive into the Atlantic Provinces LOL!!!