The OPP joined North American road safety partners for Operation Safe Driver last week, laying a total of 6,049 charges on OPP-patrolled roads.
The week-long traffic safety campaign targeted commercial and non-commercial vehicle drivers who failed to share the road safely, with a focus on speeding.
With last year (2019) marking the highest number of commercial motor vehicle (CMV) collisions on OPP-patrolled roads in more than 20 years, officers were well-prepared to deal with the significant number of drivers they observed engaging in poor driving behaviours during the enforcement initiative.
Speeding dominated the offence categories among non-commercial drivers, with 3,687 speeding charges laid. In contrast, there were 145 speeding offences among CMV drivers, which also led the list of charges for this driver class.
Among other CMV driver charges were 110 document-related offences,
104 for moving violations, 45 defective equipment-related and 21 speed limiter charges. Officers took 19 CMVs off the road during the initiative.
Among non-commercial vehicle drivers, the OPP laid 251 seat belt charges, 112 distracted driving charges and 85 impaired driving charges.
Operation Safe Driver (July 12-18, 2020) is an annual campaign led by the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance (CVSA), with enforcement and education initiatives being held across Canada, the United States and Mexico. The goal of the campaign is to enhance traffic safety among commercial and non-commercial vehicle drivers.
It’s mostly bullshit charges and statistics to start with. Speed limiter charges don’t mean there was a criminal infraction,,,it means the trcuck wasn’t “regulated” like the government of ontario wants it to be. Just like seat belts,,,should be drivers choice,,,but to make more revenu the government made it a law. so they took 19 commercial vehicles of the road,,,layed 6000 charges,,,how many did they inspect? 19 must be well under 1%??? what would the rate be if they checked all vehicles the same way? Bunch of crooks!
Seat belts should be a drivers choice?
My tax dollars should not be going to pay medical Bill’s of morons that don’t wear their seat belts.if you’re willing to pay your own medical expenses if something happens then by all means don’t wear a belt and don’t wear a helmet if you’re a motorcyclist.
The OPP commissioner has a passion for trucks. Here is a question. Please release Stats for the March, April months, when Ontarians were in lock down. How many truck accidents etc were there?