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Old 11-06-2016, 10:25 AM   #26
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That just means you haven't been caught.
I dunno. Clean record since my L days... if I was horsing around I think I'd have been caught.
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Old 11-06-2016, 10:54 AM   #27
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I dunno. Clean record since my L days... if I was horsing around I think I'd have been caught.
My wife has been driving over 44 years, never even been stopped for speeding, let alone gotten a ticket... and she's a total lead-foot. Had three accidents in all that time, none of them even remotely her fault (one rear-ended, one witnessed by a cop, one hit by a cop).

So yeah, clean record don't mean shit.
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Old 11-07-2016, 10:45 AM   #28
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My wife has been driving over 44 years, never even been stopped for speeding, let alone gotten a ticket... and she's a total lead-foot. Had three accidents in all that time, none of them even remotely her fault (one rear-ended, one witnessed by a cop, one hit by a cop).

So yeah, clean record don't mean shit.
100% of drivers break some sort of MVA law every single day.

Whether it's speeding, rolling a stop sign, not signaling, etc.

So yeah a clean driving record is indicative of a few factors (usually more than one of these will apply):

1. How often they drive. If you drive a lot your more likely to have a ticket than someone who drives once a week to the store and back.

2. the extent to which they break different laws, obviously speeding 5km/h is less likely to result in a fine than someone who goes 90km/h through a school zone.

3. Where they drive, rural areas are less likely to have cops patrolling, than somewhere like DT vancouver (this is a generalization). Also rural areas cops often focus on particular spots, so they are more predicatable.

4. The car you drive, a guy in a corolla is less likely to get yanked than a guy in a straight piped, red, mustang.

5. Luck - Also falling into this category if you use radar detectors and such.

There is others as well. So I agree with Soundy, having a clean record is not necessarily indicative of a law abiding driver, or even a safe driver for that matter. In that same breath though not having a dozen tickets and accidents does mean you are WAYY closer to being a safe driver than a dangerous one.
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Old 11-07-2016, 07:20 PM   #29
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In my experience if you drive like an asshole 100% of the time you'll be the guy who has a rap sheet a mile long. If you are the kind of driver who picks their spots and generally go with the flow the rest of the time, you'll find you get away with a lot more.

A little luck never hurts either.
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