IMPAIRED DRIVING

Toronto Impaired driving | Brampton Impaired driving

If you got charged with impaired driving or over 80, it is not a time to panic. Decisions that you make may affect your future and, in some cases, your freedom. Although the situation is serious, there is help. Experienced criminal lawyers from MASS TSANG LLP. with decades of court experience fighting impaired driving / over 80 cases are ready to help you. Contact us to schedule an IMPAIRED DRIVING consultation.

If you plead guilty to impaired driving or over 80, you admit the allegations and relieve the crown to prove your case beyond reasonable doubt. Drinking and driving cases are not as straight forward as it sounds. The impaired driving penalties become more severe for subsequent offences including jail time.

If you convicted for impaired driving or over 80, you will face significant penalties that include:

• Criminal record
• Substantial fine
• Drivers License suspension for one year (first conviction)
• Potential period of incarceration
• Installation of the Ignition Interlock device
• Attendance of Back on Track program
• You may not be able to travel to other countries
• Your insurance premiums will skyrocket

Many persons charged with impaired driving rely on their licenses to earn a living. Paralegals can not defend impaired driving allegation and you will need a lawyer to fight impaired driving charge.

IMPAIRED DRIVING / OVER 80

Everyone commits an offence who operates a motor vehicle or vessel or operates or assists in the operation of an aircraft or of railway equipment or has the care or control of a motor vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment, whether it is in motion or not,

s. 253(a) - while the person's ability to operate the vehicle, vessel, aircraft or railway equipment is impaired by alcohol or a drug; or

s. 253(b) - having consumed alcohol in such a quantity that the concentration in the person's blood exceeds eighty milligrams of alcohol in one hundred millilitres of blood.