How to fight driving with a suspended license Ontario.
Part 4 – Driving due to Emergency
- How do you fight a driving with a suspended license charge in Ontario?
- This article is Part 4 – and covers when you got caught driving with a suspended license, BUT you drove because of an emergency.
- You should read Part 1, where I address getting charged because you didn’t know you were suspended.
- Read Part 2, where I discuss getting charged because you had unpaid fines.
- And read Part 3, where losing your license for 6-months would be devastating to your life.
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- First, some context.
- Fighting a driving with a suspended license charge in Ontario is really important because the penalties are devastating.
- There is a mandatory 6-month driving suspension. And, in some cases, you may go to jail for up to 6 months.
- So the stakes are high. And that’s why it’s WORTH fighting the charge to avoid these extreme penalties.
- We have represented many clients in Ontario who have been charged with driving with a suspended license.
- And many clients have instructed us to fight the charge because they drove due to an emergency.
- Maybe they had a medical reason to drive, needing to go to a hospital or an urgent doctor’s appointment.
- Or maybe they drove to help a family member who was in danger.
- In other words, they had a valid reason to drive.
- And that valid reason was due to the emergency.
- And that driving under these unusual & emergency circumstances should be an exception to the law, and therefore, the charge should be dropped.
- While that logic makes sense, unfortunately, it’s NOT the law.
- Even where you can prove that the emergency was real, driving due to an emergency is not a legal defence to driving with a suspended license charge in Ontario.
- Bottom line. The “emergency” defence won’t work.
