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Red Light or Stop Sign Ticket in Windsor
Ticketed for a red light or stop sign near the Ambassador Bridge or elsewhere in Windsor? The $325 fine is the smaller cost — 3 demerit points and a conviction on your record for three years is the larger one. Understand what you're actually paying before you pay it.
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Red Light / Stop Sign in Windsor — how it actually works
Whether the OPP ticketed you on Highway 401 or Windsor Police Service on the Huron Church corridor or the E.C. Row Expressway, an officer-issued red light charge under s.144(18) or a stop sign charge under s.136 of the Highway Traffic Act is prosecuted at 400 City Hall Square.
The set fine is $260 for a red light ($325 with costs) and $110 for a stop sign ($150 with costs), but that's the smaller part of the cost — a conviction carries 3 demerit points and sits on your driving record, visible to insurers, for three years. How these charges are defended in Ontario covers the amber-light defence and the officer's-vantage-point questions that actually move a file.
Given how much of Huron Church runs at stop-and-go pace feeding the bridge, a stop sign charge here often turns on how confidently an officer could judge, from a distance and an angle, that your wheels never actually stopped.
In our experience
A number of the Windsor files we see involve intersections along Huron Church, where heavy commercial traffic and frequent stop-and-go conditions make an officer's sightline — and how confident they can be about wheels never stopping — a genuinely live question.
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Red Light / Stop Sign in Windsor — questions we get
Is a Windsor red-light ticket from a camera or an officer?
That distinction matters. An officer-issued ticket carries 3 demerit points and goes on your record; a camera ticket carries no points and is administrative, directed at the plate holder. We defend the officer-issued charge, not camera tickets.
Where is a Windsor red light or stop sign ticket heard?
Windsor Provincial Offences Court at 400 City Hall Square, Suite 401 — every Highway Traffic Act charge laid inside the City of Windsor is prosecuted from that one office.
Should I just pay a Windsor stop sign ticket?
Paying is a guilty plea. The fine is modest, but the 3 demerit points and the conviction sitting on your record for three years is the real cost — especially if you already have another minor conviction in that window.
Related pages
This may not be the whole picture — here's how we handle other charges in Windsor, and how Red Light / Stop Sign plays out in other Ontario cities.