OPP long weekend stats

Here are the preliminary holiday traffic statistics from the Ontario Provincial Police North East Region for the Labour Day long weekend:

Vehicles Stopped – 290

Traffic Charges – 277

Traffic Warnings – 375

Commercial Vehicle’s Placed Out of Service – 1

RIDE – Vehicles Checked - 941
12-Hour Suspensions – 2
Impaired Drivers - 0

Highest offenders were at 58 km over the speed limit.

Marine vessels stopped – 100 +

Marine Charges – 8

Marine Warnings – 20 +

Total Charges – 298

Total Warnings - 395

These values do not include Monday’s statistics. There has been no fatality collisions reported this weekend as of this time.

Notes:
One North Bay Traffic officer stopped a northbound vehicle on Friday at approximately 10:30 AM on Hwy # 11 for 135 km/h in a 100-km/h zone.

On Sunday the same vehicle was stopped going southbound by the same officer at the same location at 132 km/h. The drivers response was “Not again and the same officer.”