Tools & Calculators
Traffic-Offence Lookup Tool
A search-driven way to find the offence that matches your ticket, by keyword or by category. The interactive search is still in development — here’s how it will work, and how to browse the same information manually right now.
What this tool will do
Once live, the Traffic-Offence Lookup Tool will let you type in a keyword from your ticket — a section number, a phrase like “careless driving,” or a general description of what happened — and get back a shortlist of matching offence pages on the site, each explaining what the offence generally involves and roughly how serious it’s treated. It will also support browsing by category, so you can start from a general area like speeding or distracted driving rather than an exact term. It will search only the educational content already published on this site; it will not identify the specific charge on your ticket for you or tell you how your case will be decided, since that depends on the exact wording of the charge and the facts of your situation.
Browsing offence categories manually (in the meantime)
Until search is live, the fastest way to find what you’re looking for is to browse by category. The site currently groups offences roughly by how many demerit points they carry, alongside dedicated pages for some of the more serious and commonly searched offences:
- Traffic Offences — the main hub covering common Ontario moving violations.
- Two-Point Offences — lower-severity violations like failing to signal or a seatbelt infraction.
- Three-Point Offences — mid-range violations such as failing to yield or a first distracted-driving conviction.
- Four-Point Offences — more serious violations like following too closely or higher-range speeding.
- Speeding — a dedicated page on how speeding offences are generally treated.
- Careless Driving and Stunt Driving — dedicated pages on two of the more serious individual offences.
- Serious Offences — the hub for higher-consequence violations, including offences that can carry licence suspension or impoundment.
What to have on hand when you look something up
Whether you’re browsing manually now or using the search tool once it’s live, it helps to have your actual ticket in front of you. Ontario tickets typically list a short offence description and a reference to the relevant section of the Highway Traffic Act or a related regulation. Matching that wording against the category pages above — rather than relying on memory of what happened — gives you the most accurate starting point, since offence names on a ticket don’t always match the everyday language used to describe them.