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Fail to Remain Charge in Barrie
Charged with fail to remain after a collision on Highway 400 or a city street in Barrie? This carries 7 demerit points — the maximum for any single offence in Ontario — plus jail exposure. Understand what you're actually facing before you do anything else.
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Fail to Remain in Barrie — how it actually works
A fail-to-remain charge under s.200 of the Highway Traffic Act can be laid whether the collision happened on Highway 400, patrolled by the OPP, or on a city street covered by Barrie Police Service. Either way, the matter is prosecuted at 45 Cedar Pointe Drive, and — unlike a Part I ticket — there is no fine to simply pay. You are served with a summons and the matter is set down for court.
This is one of the most serious Highway Traffic Act charges: 7 demerit points, the maximum for any single offence, a licence suspension of up to two years, and jail exposure of up to six months. How fail-to-remain charges are defended in Ontario covers the full penalty structure and where a genuine defence exists.
These charges frequently turn on knowledge — whether contact was perceptible from the driver's seat at all, particularly in slow, noisy weekend traffic on the 400. Damage photographs, their height and location, and whether a witness could reliably read your plate are usually where the case is decided.
In our experience
A share of the Barrie fail-to-remain files we see involve low-speed contact in the heavy weekend cottage traffic on Highway 400 — a bump the driver genuinely didn't register in the noise and congestion. Whether that's credible is often the whole case.
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Fail to Remain in Barrie — questions we get
How many demerit points is fail to remain in Barrie?
Seven — the maximum for any single offence in the Ontario demerit system, the same whether the matter is heard in Barrie or anywhere else in the province. For a fully licensed driver, 15 points results in suspension.
Where is a Barrie fail-to-remain charge heard?
Barrie Provincial Offences Court at 45 Cedar Pointe Drive, which prosecutes Highway Traffic Act matters for the County of Simcoe. This is a Part III charge, heard on a summons rather than a payable ticket.
I only clipped a parked car in a Barrie parking lot and left — is that fail to remain?
Yes. Section 200 is engaged by involvement in a collision, with no minimum damage threshold and no requirement that another person was present. Striking an unattended vehicle and driving off can support the charge.
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This may not be the whole picture — here's how we handle other charges in Barrie, and how Fail to Remain plays out in other Ontario cities.