Fined for a plate not quite visible

Photo Camille Garnier
Pierre Malo has had a bad surprise by receiving by mail a citation stating that the license plate of his car parked in front of his home three weeks ago was not legible, a snow day.

Camille Garnier

Friday, 16 February 2018 01:00

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Friday, 16 February 2018 01:00

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A Montreal deplores the “zeal” of an employee of the City who wrote a ticket of $ 63 because the license plate from his vehicle parked in front of his house was not visible a snow day.

“It does not make sense,” said Pierre Malo. In Montreal, there are plenty of parked cars which are snow-covered and which you don’t see the plate. “

The resident of the district of Villeray received in the mail last Wednesday, the infraction report, dated 22 January.

The fine confirms that the vehicle of Mr. Malo was parked that day, just a few steps from him, as he said. On the grounds of the offence, it is written that the plate was ” not free of any material that could prevent the playback of “.

“If I was riding, I would have been able to understand, but here, I find it a little absurd,” says Mr. Malo.

He fell a dozen centimetres of snow on Montreal on the 22nd of January. It is a priori the only matter that would have been able to hide the plate of Mr. Malo.

The irony is that the man, a motorist cautious, has made changing the light bulb illuminating his license plate a few days before receiving the fine.

EXPLANATIONS

Today, Pierre Malo is not yet known if he will take the time to take the necessary steps to challenge this ticket. He thinks all the same write to the borough councillor for an explanation.

Éric Lamontagne, a lawyer in Contravention of Experts, indicates never having seen a case.

“If the vehicle is on a public road, there is application of the highway safety Code, grants-in-t-he. Except that it is necessary to use his head and make use of good sense. In this case, I think that the police would have been able to put a warning instead of a fine considering that it was snowing and it is winter. “

RIGOR

Me Lamontagne note a growth of this type of application very strict Code of road safety.

“The police will walk around and measure if the vehicles are more than 30 cm from the sidewalk by example,” he says. Or they will look if people are parked within 5 metres of an intersection. There are situations where I find that it smells of quotas. “

♦ Contacted by The Newspaper, the City of Montreal did not respond to our call.