Be Safe On The Road This Easter Weekend

(HURON COUNTY, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is committed to road safety. As a driver, your actions directly impact your safety and the safety of other motorists. With the Easter Long Weekend approaching and as the weather improves, the roads get busier. Here are some important tips to remember every time you get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle:

Pay Attention to the Road

Distracted drivers are a safety risk! It is illegal in Ontario for drivers to use any handheld communication and entertainment devices while operating a motor vehicle. Those who continue to engage in this dangerous activity are putting themselves and other users of the roadway at risk.

Buckle Up – Seatbelts Save Lives

All Ontario drivers and passengers must wear a seatbelt in a properly adjusted and securely fastened manner. It’s the law. Making sure your children are also secure, in a properly installed child restraint, is equally as important. Wearing a seatbelt properly will dramatically increase your chance of surviving a motor vehicle collision.

Obeying the Speed Limit

Speed continues to be the number one cause of motor vehicle fatalities in Ontario. Slowing down, and obeying the posted speed limit, will reduce the number of fatal crashes and serious injury collisions.

Slow Down or Move Over

Drivers must remember that when passing an emergency vehicle, stopped with its emergency lights activated in the same direction of travel, either in a lane or on the shoulder of a road or highway, to slow down and pass with caution. If the road has two or more lanes you must move over into another lane, if it can be done safely.

Don’t Drink and Drive

Impaired driving continues to be the leading cause of death in Canada. The Huron County OPP detachment conducts R.I.D.E. (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) spot checks throughout the year to remove the threat of the impaired driver. Do your part by not drinking and driving.

By working together we can make Ontario’s highways the safest in the world!

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