Ontario demerit point table
The Ministry of Transportation adds demerit points to your driving record when you are convicted of certain driving offences. Points stay on your record for two years from the offence date. Here is the full list from Ontario’s demerit point regulation.
7 demerit points
- Failing to remain at the scene of a collision
- Failing to stop when signalled or asked by a police officer
6 demerit points
- Careless driving
- Racing
- Exceeding the speed limit by 40 km/h or more on roads with a speed limit under 80 km/h
- Exceeding the speed limit by 50 km/h or more
- Failing to stop for a school bus
5 demerit points
- Failing to stop at an unprotected railway crossing (bus drivers only)
4 demerit points
- Exceeding the speed limit by 30 to 49 km/h
- Following too closely
- Failing to stop at a pedestrian crossover
3 demerit points
- Driving while holding or using a hand-held wireless communication or entertainment device
- Driving while viewing a display screen unrelated to driving
- Exceeding the speed limit by 16 to 29 km/h
- Driving through, around or under a railway crossing barrier
- Driving the wrong way on a divided road
- Driving or operating a vehicle on a closed road
- Failing to yield the right-of-way
- Failing to obey a stop sign, traffic control stop/slow sign, traffic light or railway crossing signal
- Failing to obey the directions of a police officer
- Failing to report a collision to a police officer
- Failing to slow down and carefully pass, or move over for, a stopped emergency vehicle or tow truck with amber lights flashing
- Improper passing
- Improper driving when a road is divided into lanes
- Going the wrong way on a one-way road
- Crossing a divided road where no proper crossing is provided
- Crowding the driver’s seat
- Driving a vehicle equipped with a radar detector
- Improper use of a high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane
2 demerit points
- Improper right turn or left turn
- Prohibited turns
- Improper opening of a vehicle door
- Towing people on toboggans, bicycles or skis
- Unnecessary slow driving
- Backing on a highway
- Failing to lower headlamp beams
- Failing to obey signs
- Failing to stop at a pedestrian crossing
- Failing to share the road
- Failing to signal
- Driver failing to wear a seatbelt
- Driver failing to properly secure a child in a car seat or booster seat, or a passenger under 16 in a seatbelt
Points are only added if you are convicted. Fighting a ticket can mean the charge is withdrawn, dismissed, or reduced to an offence with fewer or no points. See what happens when points add up.
General information only, not legal advice. Penalties and points are taken from Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act, the demerit point regulation (O. Reg. 339/94) and Ministry of Transportation guidance as of October 2026, and can change. Your options depend on the facts of your case.
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