Halton Police Motorcycle
We now have the stats from the latest run of Operation Impact.
The annual national public awareness initiative aims to make Canada’s roads the safest in the world. It’s spearheaded by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, under the leadership of the CACP Traffic Safety Committee.
This year’s campaign ran from October 7th to October 10th over the Thanksgiving long weekend. It focused on impaired driving due to alcohol, drugs or fatigue, as well as aggressive driving, distracted driving, and driving without a seat belt.
Over the course of four days, members of the Halton Regional Police Service’s District Response Teams and uniform patrol officers issued a total of 130 Provincial Offence Notices (tickets) for traffic-related offences to drivers throughout the region. Seventy-four (74) drivers received written warnings.
Seven people were also charged with impaired driving related charges over the long weekend.
“Collisions don’t take weekends and holidays off. The reality is that most are the direct result of a conscious decision that an individual driver has made – be it to speed, to drive distracted, or to drive impaired by alcohol, drugs or fatigue”, says Sergeant Will Clayton, Regional Traffic Services. “The Halton Regional Police Service will continue to focus on behaviours that put drivers, passengers and all road users at risk each and every day of the year.”
