OPP WEEKEND PATROL
IT'S THAT SAME WARNING MOTORISTS HEAR FROM POLICE THE FRIDAY BEFORE A LONG WEEKEND.
- Newswatch Newsroom
8/31/2012
IT'S THAT SAME WARNING MOTORISTS HEAR FROM POLICE THE FRIDAY BEFORE A LONG WEEKEND. THE O.P.P. WILL BE WATCHING. BUT IT'S NOT JUST THE HIGHWAYS OFFICERS WILL BE PATROLLING. THE O.P.P WILL ALSO BE KEEPING THEIR EYE OUT ON WATERWAYS AND TRAILS AS A PART OF AN ONGOING EFFORT TO DECREASE FATALITIES. OFFICERS WILL ALSO BE OUT ON FULL FORCE LOOKING OUT FOR AGGRESSIVE DISTRACTING DRIVING AND THOSE DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. AN EXTRA EYE ON THE ROADS AND WATER WAYS BECAUSE UNFORUNATELY FATALITIES DUE TO COLLISIONS ARE UP THIS YEAR.
KRISTINE RAE
" WE'VE HAD 10 MORE PEOPLE DIE ALREADY ON OUR HIGHWAYS THIS YEAR. THIS IS ONLY FROM JANUARY TO THE END OF AUGUST. WE NEED THAT TREND TO STOP. WE STILL HAVE A FEW MONTHS TO GO AND WE DON'T WON'T TO BE WORSE THAN LAST YEAR. WE WANT IT TO BE BETTER. WHEN PEOPLE DIE IT EFFECTS NOT JUST THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THAT COLLISION BUT POLICE, INSURANCE COMPANIES IT A LARGE GAMUT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE EFFECTED".