OPP Continue Long Weekend Crackdown
Posted August 2, 2010 10:54 am.
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The OPP are continuing their long weekend crackdown on distracted drivers and boaters on this holiday Monday.
Before the weekend began, the Ontario Provincial Police warned that they would be on the lookout for distracted drivers, anyone not wearing a seatbelt and drunk driving.
That last offense is especially potent for young drivers. The newly legislated zero-tolerance law makes it illegal for a driver 21 or under to consume any alcohol, regardless of their class of licence.
Any amount of alcohol in a person’s bloodstream will mean a seized licence for 24 hours. Two people were arrested on that charge this past weekend.
Meanwhile, officers clocked a car doing 171 km/h on Highway 401 near Loyalist Township.
The long weekends are often deadly – over Canada Day, 16 people died in Ontario.
So far this weekend, two people in the GTA have died in car crashes.
A Toronto man was killed near Hamilton on Sunday, just as OPP were about to stop a vehicle they say was driving erratically. A 54-year-old died when his car slammed into a guardrail on the QEW.
And a 29-year-old man is facing charges Saturday after an early morning crash that left one person dead and four others in hospital (pictured).
Police were also monitoring the province’s waterways, checking to see if boaters had their licenses and the proper number of life jackets on board.
