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  1. Newsgroups: ont.general
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!ohgpu!jfreirec
  3. From: jfreirec@ohgpu.hydro.on.ca (Jose Freire-Canosa)
  4. Subject: New York State Traffic Violation
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov17.191041.2231@ohgpu.hydro.on.ca>
  6. Organization: Ontario Hydro
  7. Distribution: ont
  8. Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:10:41 GMT
  9. Lines: 26
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  11. I am posting this for a friend:                                                                                                     
  12.                                                                                                                                     
  13. Does anyone know if there is any arrangement between the Province of Ontario and                                                    
  14. the State of New York wrt traffic violations?                                                                                       
  15.                                                                                                                                     
  16. I was stopped for speeding on Interstate 90, going 130 km/h (Highway 90 is a 55 mph                                                 
  17. zone). The traffic on the highway was very light and I was in a hurry for other                                                     
  18. reasons but I am not asking for understanding.                                                                                      
  19.                                                                                                                                     
  20. At home, I followed the instructions and sent in the notice of violation and signed                                                 
  21. it guilty, but included a letter of explaination stating among other things that                                                    
  22. this was my first violation in six years of driving and asked them to be lenient.                                                   
  23. The town court answered with a rough, photocopied letter, with a hand written message                                               
  24. that the fine was $100 in US funds but that I could plea bargain it with the                                                        
  25. Assistant District Attorney.                                                                                                        
  26.                                                                                                                                     
  27. I went ahead and wrote the ADA a short letter and included my previous letter                                                       
  28. of explaination.  I just got the reply saying that they will remove the charge                                                      
  29. of 6 points, because of no violations in the previous 3 years --but-- that I must                                                   
  30. pay the reduced charge of $200 + $25 surcharge!!  On top of that he wants me to                                                     
  31. send the conviction stub of my license with a stamped self-addressed envelope!!                                                     
  32. To my knowledge the only stub I could send them is the organ donor consent or the                                                   
  33. change of address stub. I am thinking of just paying the original fine of $100                                                      
  34. US funds but I am not sure if I should or even if I would be off the hook if I do.                                                  
  35.                                                                                                                                     
  36. I appreciate your help, thanks in advance      ...Andrew                                                                            
  37.