“We’ve talked about this before where there’s discretion for the officers. For how fast they’re going to let someone go over the speed limit… if the police stopped everyone for doing 10 or 15 kms over the speed limit on a highway, you’d have a thousand tickets in 25 minutes. People generally go 10kms over the speed limit anyways – again we can talk about artificially lower speed limits, but if you look at Alberta for example, their highest fine…
Grant on The Mike Smyth Show: Taking down the DTES encampment, Excessive speeding, & Rising beer prices!
“You only get 3 points but what they have for excessive speed is a ‘high risk driver premium’. So for 3 consecutive years you pay about $300 more on your insurance providing you have a car insured in your name. A lot of the young drivers are driving their parent’s cars so it won’t effect their insurance. In extreme cases like that, we would give an appearance notice and have the person go right to court… The problem with excessive…
Grant on Global News: Advocates say B.C.’s distracted driving rules are confusing, call for a re-write
Is it time for British Columbia to overhaul its distracted driving legislation for greater clarity? It’s a call some advocates are making in the wake last week’s Lower Mainland distracted driving enforcement blitz — and a slip-up by the province’s own public insurer in a safety video explaining exactly what is and isn’t legal when on the road. ICBC was forced to delete the video and apologize, after erroneously suggesting that it was against the law to have a mobile phone sitting…
Grant on The Mike Smyth Show: BC budget debate, Housing struggles, & Terrible drivers in Vancouver!
MLAs Peter Milobar and Andrew Mercier square off in a BC budget debate! BC’s latest budget is highlighting our housing struggles. Are Vancouver drivers the worst in Canada when it comes to snow? “Grant, over your many years as a traffic police officer, I’m sure you saw a lot of fender benders in the snow. Do people know how to drive properly in the snow and ice?” “… I would give a C average as a whole in the lower…
Grant on The Mike Smyth Show: LNG Canada debate, Income-based traffic fines, & Two drinks a week!
“Would income-based traffic fines be an effective solution to tackling driving offences?” “The police aren’t going to know roadside what your income is, unless suddenly they have access to their computers, to your annual tax return from the year before…If the fines were meant to be a deterrent, there would still be no points for using electronics…” “If they brought a system in like this… Do you think police officers would think to pull over high-end cars to generate a…
The Alex Fraser Bridge closure – What could have been done differently?
Grant Gottgetreu, Former traffic cop in New West and West Vancouver, now a forensic criminal and traffic consultant at Forensictrafficpro.com discusses whether or not traffic could have still been allowed to move across the Alex Fraser Bridge during a crisis situation earlier this week. “In a situation like this – I’m going to assume you’ve had to deal with some of these, what is the priority of the police? How do they go about getting control of the situation?” “…One…
Grant on the Mike Smyth Show: Big Oil lawsuit, Fake police officer in North Van, & Driving old cars!
“The motorist in this particular case did everything right… They were signalled to pull over and they pulled over. When they recognized that something was wrong they left and they called 911…”
Grant on Mornings with Simi: Setting up your will, Abuse at the Surrey BOT & Overloaded with drunk drivers
Do police need to step up their public information campaigns, be more visible? “As long as people have freewill, they’re going to continue to speed, use their cellphones, drink and drive… Police do the best job they can – no amount of education is going to irradicate it.”
Grant on Global News BC: Vancouver Police seek clues in crash that killed baby
Days after a baby was killed in a tragic collision in downtown Vancouver, investigators are appealing for a specific witness to come forward. Kristen Robinson has more on the plea, what experts say may have caused the crash and the suspect driver’s history with police. … Forensic traffic consultant, Grant Gottgetreu says investigators will be examining video surveillance and performing mechanical inspections on both vehicles. “It wouldn’t surprise me if it was an attempt to beat a light” “I think…
Grant on Back on the Beat with John Daly
The RCMP says now that it’s issued the first Covid-19 non-essential travel ticket – $575. … “I suspect what’s happening in most cases is the police are relying on the honour system–that when they have a driver stopped at these road-checks… the person is being honest.”