BMJL 435 – White Mazda 5: Careless driving, cutting lanes and abnormal gestures

White Mazda 5’s driver showed extremely inappropriate behavior on Oct 12, 2018 moving up highway 404. License plate number if the vehicle is BMJL 435. Several rules have been violated almost causing crash and surrounding drivers were distracted by this.

Here are observed violations captured on video (it is formatted to remove parts without maneuvers):

  • Changing lane to the left without signalling (sec 4) – 2 demerit point
  • Changing lane to the right without signalling (sec 8) – 2 points
  • Changing lane to the left without signalling (sec 13) – 2 points
  • Almost hitting car in adjacent lane when changing lanes – careless driving (sec 13) – 6 demerit points
  • Inappropriate gestures (sec 17)
  • Changing lane to the left with right turn signal (sec 21) – 2 points

All of them total to at least 14 demerit points.

Mazda 5 careless driving, gestures on highway 404

Changing lane too close to car with dash camera:

Inappropriate gestures:

License plate with better resolution:

Given severity of all violations and overall behavior of this driver, CDSA for this case will be $3000 CAD.

If it was caught by police, driver could be even imprisoned. If insurance companies would know about it, most likely nobody will even insure such driver. In these cases driver would have to pay much more. Not taking about possible collision which could cause really severe damage to people.

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