(MUNICIPALITY OF NORTH PERTH, ON) – On Friday August 21, 2015, shortly after 9 p.m., a Perth County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer was conducting patrols on Line 37, North-West of Shakespeare.
The officer observed a fast moving Toyota Yaris driving west bound on Line 37. The use of a police radar determined that the speed of the Yaris was 130 km/h along a road where the speed limit is 80 km/h.
The male driver of the Yaris, 21-year-old Jordan-Alexander MCMICHAEL of the Township of Perth East was issued a summons for “race a motor vehicle”, contrary to the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario. He is to appear at Stratford Court on September 22, 2015, to answer to this charge.
The charged male was also charged with driving a motor vehicle without a licence. In addition to these charges he will not be able to obtain a drivers licence for seven days as he has received an immediate seven day suspension. His vehicle was also towed from the scene and has been impounded for a week.
The Perth County OPP is reminding motorists that they will continue to intensively patrol Perth County roads this summer. Officers will be concentrating their patrols on heavily travelled east-west roads, intersections where there have historically been high numbers of collisions and in locations from which traffic complaints have been received.