(HURON COUNTY, ON) – Officers from the Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment did their part to keep our local highways safe this past weekend, however several drivers failed to do their part.
This past weekend Huron County OPP officers were participating in Operation Impact, Canada’s largest annual road safety campaign. Officers focused their patrols on the “Big 4†driving behaviours that contribute to the bulk of deadly collisions: impaired driving, lack of occupant restraint, distracted driving and aggressive driving.
124 drivers were ticketed for speeding, 15 drivers were charged with failing to wear their seatbelt, 6 distracted drivers were charged and another 29 were ticketed with various Highway Traffic Act violations. Two drivers that exceeded the speed limit by more than 50 km/h had their vehicles impounded and licences suspended for seven days. Four drivers were charged with impaired driving and another two were served with three day warn range suspensions.
The concentrated enforcement and education efforts by Huron OPP certainly helped to keep the highways safer this past weekend in Huron County. Nine collisions were investigated by police with none of them involving serious injuries. Four of the collisions were animal related and one was a minor fender bender in a parking lot.
Although Operation Impact is over, the Huron County OPP detachment remains committed to raising awareness and enforcing traffic laws associated with the “Big 4â€Â.