(New Tecumseth, ON) On Friday the 10th of October 2014 at 11:12 pm an officer from the Nottawasaga OPP Detachment was on general patrol in the area of Highway 89 and the 9th Line of New Tecumseth Township when a silver Honda Accord was observed to be travelling eastbound at a high rate of speed.
The officers determined that the motor vehicle was travelling 155 km/hr in a posted 80 km/hr zone.
The driver was stopped and as a result of the investigation, 22-year old male of Barrie was charged with Stunt Driving with a female passenger onboard. His licence was immediately suspended for seven days and his motor vehicle was impounded for seven days.
Recent OPP data has revealed that OPP-investigated road deaths this year
(2014) in which speeding was a causal factor are more than double what they
were at this time last year.