Information regarding collisions.
Driving behaviour is a never ending curiosity for me, so when I heard a conversation about the intersection of Haslam and Adshead Roads south of Nanaimo I had to take a look. Apparently most drivers ignored the yield signs at this Y shaped intersection and zoomed through it as if the rest of the world was going to stop for them.
If you decide to commit a hit and run to escape responsibility for causing a crash in British Columbia the consequences can be serious if you are convicted. The courts expect drivers to remain at or return to the scene and offer help to the injured parties. An exchange of information is also required. Here is one example.
Whenever I am driving on a highway with more than one lane for my direction of travel I can expect multiple drivers to make an unsafe lane change in front of me. This robs me of the space cushion that I have established and requires me to drop back to regain it. When the roads are covered in slush this type of lane change can have significant risk for the driver behind.
When you apply for vehicle insurance with ICBC you are asked who the principal driver will be. This is the person who will be driving that vehicle the majority of the time during the term of the policy. An important factor in setting the premium for the policy is the driving history of this person.
When a vehicle is in yaw it is rotating around a vertical axis through it's centre of mass. The long, curved yaw marks left by the tires on the pavement were characteristic of this motion. If they were striated and of constantly diminishing radius they were of great interest for collision reconstruction because the vehicle's speed could be determined from them.
I was issued a ticket two weeks after my accident for "failure to keep right." It was delivered to my home by two officers from the detachment in the city I live in. The officer that attended the accident scene was from a detachment equal distance away from the accident.
The initial supreme court decision on the case of R v Hecimovic made me scratch my head. Ms. Hecimovic was charged and acquitted of dangerous driving after causing a collision in a Pitt Meadows. The behaviour was clearly dangerous to me, but the court didn't look at it that way.
Perhaps the most common collision type in British Columbia is the rear end crash. ICBC reports between 22,000 and 25,000 of them each year. How do you protect yourself from being involved in a rear end collision? Here are 10 suggestions for steps that you can take to keep yourself safe.
Question: I need some advice on a ticket for falling asleep at the wheel. I dozed off while driving home from work at 1:00 in the afternoon after doing a few late night / early morning shifts. I drove off the road and struck a guardrail doing damage to the truck. RCMP attended and wrote me up for "driving without consideration." I was told it would be $196 fine.
This incident took place at the intersection of Canada Way and Rosewood Street in Burnaby. It involved three vehicles, two of which changed lanes as their drivers did not want to wait for left turning traffic ahead of them. Those lane changes resulted in a crash involving the third vehicle traveling straight through using the right lane.