I think it is refusing the breathalyzer. I know in VA if you refuse it you lose your license for 6 months no matter what. If you take it and fail they have you for DUI and you will lose your license anyway eventually, and obviously you are going to jail that night so you won't be able to drive again until you are sober anyway. I could be wrong but I think that is how it works here.

edit: I was just thinking about this and I actually don't think they always take your license for a DUI. I think for first offenses sometimes it just gets restricted so you can drive to and from work and or school, but you have to keep a copy of your schedule with you in case you get pulled over. I am amazed by all the big red Rs on licenses when I card people in our bar.

Sorry to hear that Destructis... Hope hius insurance will cover the damages... and they will pay considering it was a DUI, overhere they can, and will, refuse to pay if any violation of laws has been comitted

Staffan

Ontario DUI

An individual stopped by the police whose blood alcohol concentration exceeds 50 mg/100mL will lose his or her licence for 12 hours.

http://www.lawyers.ca/international/sectiondetail.asp?ID=9&state=Ontario

Administrative Driver's License Suspension, Automatic 90 Day Suspension when Charged with Over 80 or Refusal

http://www.lawyers.ca/international/sectiondetail.asp?ID=15&state=Ontario

Of interest to Americans

If a US citizen or other non-Canadian citizen is convicted of a DUI offence in the USA or a dui offence in any country other than Canada, the DUI offender will be inadmissible to Canada on grounds of criminality, unless rehabilitated, because the DUI offence is deemed to be a Canadian DUI offence and all Canadian DUI offences are deemed indictable (similar to a US felony - see above) unless the Crown has elected to proceed with the DUI offence by summary conviction (which will never have happened because the DUI offense occurred outside Canada. The situation will be different if the DUI offence occurs in Ontario or elsewhere in Canada and the Crown elects to proceed by summary conviction which they normally do.

Those penalties seem to me to be pretty light IMHO.

20mm: No I don't have collision

Semi good news though. My insurance agent called me at 3:30 and said the trace finally came back. The car is uninsured, so my insurance company is going to cover it. They also authorized a rental car now that they know what is going on. My car is getting towed tomorrow to a repair place for the estimate. What they do is call around to local dealerships and get three prices for a like model car in about the same condition. (mileage etc) and if which ever is less, they will give me. If it would cost less to repair the car, then they will fix it. They don't go by blue book and will go by retail price.

I don't know how this will work out, but I am hoping for the best at this point. Once they find out all the costs involved, they are going to turn it over to their recovery department to go after the guy who hit me.

At least something is in the works now.

Did you read the links?

http://www.lawyers.ca/international/sectiondetail.asp?ID=7&state=Ontario
http://www.lawyers.ca/international/sectiondetail.asp?ID=9&state=Ontario

Sorry if I offended - I know how it can be when someone wrecks one's car and it's out of commission with the innocent driver holding the bag.

Wife's Mustang got whacked in a parking lot (hit and run) and we wound up going out of pocket for repairs. Just like yours, it was basically undriveable.

Two years ago an uninsured driver t-boned her Jeep, but we were lucky the insurance company (Allstate) did their part and even left our rates the same.

It's fine. I apologize for my reaction. Your joke was just bad timing.

Gah I just got the call. They totalled it and gave me $3400.

Now I have to go out and buy another car. What a pain in the ass. At least I have a resolution to this part.

Didn't you say you only paid 3 grand for your car though? So you made $400 profit. Things certainly could be worse.