Preferbly answers from those who know the Canadian (ON specif) courts/law system and how it/they work/sâ ď¸ thank you đ
Anyways so... basically asking if I will be getting any serious charges/or sued.. so back in March, I lost my vehicle to an accident (no insurance, I was not driving it, but in passenger seat). Long story short I let a friend drive cause we were going to check out a new store. She offered to drive so I said "let's just take my car cuz it's already warmed up" I let her drive cuz we are old highschool friends and she never had a license when we were in highscool so I said go for it. On the way to check out the new store she is making a left turn at an intersection and juat keeps driving right into the corner of the intersection. She hit a pedestrian, a street crossing signal pole, and then proceeded to drive the car into a low cement wall/barrier, surrounding a parking lot along the intersection. The pedestrian, (a 65 year old man), was luckily conscious after the incident but suffering some pretty serious injuries. He is alive and making a full recovery last I heard. Turned out my friend had grown a pretty big drinking problem over the years. (This was the second time seeing her in years, prior to the week before, on the exact day, and I also had woken her up that day when I got to her home that afternoon, shortly before we left to go.) So I was not at all aware that she was intoxicated, resulting in this unfortunate accident. She was arrested at the scene, charged with 3 charges, and I haven't heard from her since. I was given a "summons of defendant" for permissions to operate motor vehicle without insurance, (or something along those lines), like 2 days after the accident. I've already attended the first court date for this and it was just pushed off to July 13th now. Should I be worried or get a lawyer?
you're driving a vehicle without insurance? right on.
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Buddy, with the price of insurance let alone gas and the cost of living in general, I'm sure I'm not the only person who be out here doing it. Ridiculous. Would of continued to get away with it too, had I never let her drive that day. Was just a bad judgement call clearly.. I'm sure you've done similar shit, if not worse lol.
You have to pay to play. You want to drive a vehicle you need to have insurance. That's how society works. If you don't like it or feel it's too expensive that's okay you don't have to participate. You're definitely not the only one but you did get caught. You should be charged
