NEWS RELEASE
ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE
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Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers responded to 6 street fatalities and two off-road car deaths throughout what the OPP had hoped can be a secure Civic Day lengthy weekend for everybody.
The OPP performed a province-wide site visitors security marketing campaign all through the weekend, retaining a watch out for drivers who had been aggressive, distracted, impaired and unbuckled (together with passengers). These behaviours account for a major variety of preventable deaths yearly. Officers additionally performed enforcement and training round Ontario’s Transfer Over Legislation.
The OPP laid a complete of 8,050 charges related to varied site visitors, marine and off-road car legal guidelines between Friday afternoon and Monday evening (August 2-5, 2024).
Among the many site visitors charges:
Dashing: 4,040
Racing/stunt driving: 125
Impaired driving: 235
Distracted driving: 69
No seatbelt: 554
Transfer over legislation: 99
The OPP reminds the motoring public in regards to the central position they play in lowering the variety of lives misplaced on roads, waterways and trails by being secure, accountable drivers (and passengers) with a shared purpose of constructing it to and from each vacation spot safely.
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