Neither the police nor the courts are required to tell G1 drivers of the hidden penalties for speeding tickets.
Novice drivers have strict penalties with lower thresholds from class G drivers, including thirty (30) day licence suspensions for:
Where a G1 Driver has their licence suspended the insurance rates will be dramatically affected.
Any speeding ticket for more than 29km/h has a licence suspension for G1 Drivers.
Any speeding ticket or traffic ticket a G1 Driver receives will affect insurance rates for three (3) years.
Speeding tickets and licence suspensions affect your insurance rates.
Where a G1 Driver receives any speeding ticket and a conviction is registered it will affect the insurance rates.
Where the driver receives a speeding ticket for more than 29km/h and is suspended, the insurance will increase to high risk insurance rates.
The conviction will put two “strikes” against the driver in that:
The police nor the courts advise G1 drivers that convictions over 29km/h have a licence suspension. Upon conviction the Ministry of Transport will send a letter to the registered address advising the Novice driver to surrender their drivers licence at a Service Ontario location.
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Any ticket with four (4) demerit points has a thirty (30) day licence suspension for G2 Drivers.
Where a G2 Driver accumulates six (6) demerit points the driver loses their licence for thirty (30) days.
Where the driver loses their licence for an accumulation of demerit points and then subsequently goes over the demerit point limit a second time, the suspension shall be for ninety (90) days.
