F.M. contacted me after receiving a call from police who were investigating an incident in which a vehicle registered in his name hit a parked car late at night. \u00a0Both vehicles sustained serious damage and F.M.\u2019s vehicle was then driven to his home. \u00a0The police attended the home shortly after the accident occurred and knocked on the door but no one answered. \u00a0They suspected that F.M. had been driving impaired and had not remained on the scene of the accident in order to avoid being charged. \u00a0The following day, I attended the police station with my client and the police tried to get him to give a statement. \u00a0My client exercised his right to silence and the police subsequently charged him with Failing to Remain at the Scene of a Collision (7 demerit points), Careless Driving (6 demerit points) and Operate Unsafe Motor Vehicle, all under the Highway Traffic Act. \u00a0At Provincial Offences Court, I convinced the prosecutor that they would have a very difficult time proving that my client was the driver of the vehicle. \u00a0The prosecutor ultimately agreed to withdraw the Fail to Remain and the Careless Driving and my client entered a guilty plea to the Operate Unsafe Motor Vehicle. \u00a0He received a fine and no demerit points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
F.M. contacted me after receiving a call from police who were investigating an incident in which a vehicle registered in his name hit a parked car late at night. \u00a0Both vehicles sustained serious damage and F.M.\u2019s vehicle was then driven to his home. \u00a0The police attended the home shortly after the accident occurred and knocked on the door but no one answered. \u00a0They suspected that F.M. had been driving impaired and had not remained on the scene of the accident in order to avoid being charged. \u00a0The following day, I attended the police station with my client and the police tried to get him to give a statement. \u00a0My client exercised his right to silence and the police subsequently charged him with Failing to Remain at the Scene of a Collision (7 demerit points), Careless Driving (6 demerit points) and Operate Unsafe Motor Vehicle, all under the Highway Traffic Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,38,24],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.normstanford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}