yah....giving tickets to people on THIS highway to people like OP SPEEDING well above the limit on a highway with major deaths to prevent other deaths that come with driving in this way....sure, revenue....why not know a little about where OP was speeding. :rolleyes:

um...who the hell do you think wrote the ticket? And who the hell do you think polices the city in say Surrey among other places in BC.....OH...that is right, the RCMP....

and if OP follows your advice, they will loose and you will be out more money fighting this

Not sure what you mean by "precidence in BC" but the RCMP has law enforcement rights throughout Canada.

The RCMP does extensive policing in BC - That's why the OP has a ticket from them.

Nope - If you say you're contesting it then they just give you a court date, and you show up on that date.

http://www.icbc.com/driver-licensing...sputing-ticket

Correct, but police no-shows are much more rare than they used to be.

Just pay it and be done with it.

To clarify CBP has precedence at the border and it is up to them to call the RCMP. I didn't make that clear. And the issue goes to the BC court whos ruling is ONLY in BC. Though RCMP is a federal police service they can only arrest on a Canada wide warrent, though any agency in BC could make an arrest in BC.

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I think that is more of an Alberta thing. Our court systems are seriously understaffed. The CBC was reporting traffic violations going to court over a year later in which case the police officerd were no showing due to cases being thrown out because of the right to a timely trial.

Honestly I think the OP should just pay the ticket. But I'm no lawyer and all the traffic laws and court information is available online. But everyone has a right to a fair trial in Canada and if the OP feels like they have case they should go to trial even if the whole process takes up tax dollars. I'd rather that then lose the whole legal process.

There are numerous cross-border agreements between the states and provinces but no blanket rule re what happens re a speeding ticket. Insurance companies also can obtain traffic violation records and I believe that these are accessible to them in at least one province, maybe more and it definitely crosses borders re what records are accessible. Your biggest challenge in not paying the ticket is being blacklisted by car rental companies AND if you ever go back to B.C. and get stopped by a cop for whatever violation, they will run your driver's licence through and BINGO! (and I don't know what the fine would be but it would probably be significant). I would hire a lawyer / para-legal who specializes in fighting these types of charges. You do it from your own city and they will contact their counterparts in B.C. who will take over the case. Its not cheap - usually 2 or 3 times the fine but most of the time your ticket will be changed to a non-moving offence / thrown out of court etc depending if the police show up in court (as they are required to do and testify), if the crown will accept a plea-bargain before the court case etc.

IIRC, there is a lot of controversy in BC right now about speed limits on the Sea to Sky being quite low. Very possible to go 65mph or so through there, which will net you a ticket. I'd pay it and move on though, fighting it may be more trouble than it's worth.

No its not. It's up to a $10,000 fine. Most people are able to plead it way down. The only time they stick to the max is if you were driving or acting like a real dick, or were actually racing. They can take your car for 7 days straight away however.

You're right, the 10k is the max.

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It is entirely possible to drive some parts at a higher speed if you so wished, on a clear summer's day, I can absolutely see the temptation. But they don't have variable speed limits on that road, so on a murky rainy day, on a foggy day, on an icy day, conditions are very different. Given the huge number of non-regular road users (tourists, and also the day trippers from Vancouver etc. who are going up to Whistler) it would be darn dangerous for some of those sections to have higher limits - partly because some people think a speed limit is a target, not a maximum (and doing the limit in those conditions could be suicidal) and b) because the locals, the regular drivers who know the road like the back of their hand, and who have winter tires, decent winter road handling skills etc. would drive at the higher limit and that in itself, with much slower traffic on the road from drivers who are more cautious, would cause accidents. I used to drive a (different) road every day, and it had some wicked bends - I knew the road so well, I knew exactly where and when I had to brake to make turns - but the casual road users didn't, and there were a lot of accidents on one particular turn (the whole road was 60mph - the standard for out of town roads) and eventually they actually lowered the speed limit for the small section that included that bend. But a lot of people who knew the road far exceeded the new limit, and there was a hideous head on collision with a local overtaking a "Sunday driver" just before the bend.

To the OP, welcome!

As for your question, my response would be pay the fine and get it over with.

If you were traveling 50km/h over the limit (almost 2x the speed) and got the ticket from an officer, any protestation should have been at that point if you felt that there is no way you could have been traveling that fast. In the end, it sounds like you got a big fine, but not the maximum penalty possible so in some way, the officer was doing you a possible favor.

As for why I would pay, there is a possibility you could get away with it if it does not go through your rental agency, there is no communication between ICBC and US authorities and you have no intention of entering into Canada. Those are 'ifs' that I am not sure are worth the <$200 fine.

Good lord, how much is this fine? Getting a court date and traveling from NY to Vancouver to hope the RCMP doesn't show? Hiring a paralegal to fight in court across the border and across the continent?

Seriously, unless this is a fine is an amount I can't fathom, I find these suggestions funny, at best. OP was well off enough to travel from NY to Vancouver, and to be driving a rental car to Whistler. How could anything other than just paying the fine result in a better financial outcome, factoring in time spent on any other action?

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Agree 100% - Although it's interesting to examine human nature when it comes to these sorts of issue.

In some cases, for some people, 'victory' is more important than the costs of the battle.

20 years ago I was in a minor accident with a company car. The insurance company incorrectly ruled against me and my boss (my boss was the owner of the small company that owned the car) fought them all the way to court, eventually losing. The cost of the lawyer, his time, my time etc. was much much more than the cost of simply paying the insurance differential, but the notion of 'losing' was too much for him to bear.

You also see it in divorce proceedings, where the parties dividing assets spend more money in legal fees fighting over the assets than the assets are worth.

Absolutely false. While I am not saying any points etc. would transfer to NYS, ICBC most definitely communicates electronically with all Canadian and US jurisdictions via the DLC (Drivers License Compact) in which Canadian provinces participate. There are 4 or 5 states that are not members of the Compact but NY is. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_License_Compact
These agreements have an impact on the drivers who live and are licensed in all of the Provinces and Territories in Canada and many of the States in the U.S.A. Information is shared by all the participants with each other, relating to driving offences, fines, convictions and criminal convictions as well.

A taste: Driver License Compact (DLC) is an interstate compact used by states of the United States to exchange information concerning license suspensions and traffic violations of non-residents and forward them to the state where they are licensed known as the home state. Its theme is One Driver, One License, One Record. The home state would treat the offense as if it had been committed at home, applying home state laws to the out-of-state offense. The action taken would include, but not be limited to, offenses such as speeding, suspension of license or DWI/DUI. It is not supposed to include non-moving violations like parking tickets, tinted windows, loud exhaust, etc.

However a new agreement is being implemented, the DLA, Driver License Agreement, and has been in the works for a number of years but it isn't going as quickly as planned as only a few states have signed on so far. But driver records are linked and offenses transmitted electronically. If you apply for a drivers license in BC for example, your state license is checked electronically in real time before a BC license is issued for any violations, suspensions etc.

In the OP's case, however, NYS won't impose points for a BC violation but the ticket still must be paid:
Some states do not assess points for minor offenses and apply the DLC for only major violations such as Colorado, Maryland, Nevada, New York and Pennsylvania
States that are members are free to take action on violations reported from a non-member states as well
New York does assess points for minor violations received in Ontario and Quebec.

S/he should thank that officer for not imposing an Excessive Speed violation, which would definitely have been warranted - I drive that road weekly- as that would have constituted a major violation under the compact and points would have been imposed, along with the heftier fine and vehicle impoundment that others have detailed.

In the end, pay the darn fine. You did the crime, now do the time. That speed on that stretch of highway is unacceptable and I, a regular user of that road, don't want to be on it at the same time with you, a driver intimately unfamiliar with it, at those speeds. I value my life. Slow down and pay up.