TORONTO, Ont. – It’s the Friday getaway for many people, on what is unofficially the final long weekend of summer.

With the Labour Day long weekend at hand, the Ontario Provincial Police are stepping up their enforcement on the highways and on the water.

The OPP will be out in force looking for aggressive drivers, people speeding, drunk drivers and anyone texting while driving.

Police said few road and marine fatalities are actually “accidents,” but rather most involve human error, bad judgement or distracted or impaired driving.

“Our statistics show that in most of the road, marine and trail incidents we investigate, the causal factor is attributable to human error and/or bad judgement and could have been prevented if everyone simply obeyed our laws because they do save lives,” said OPP Deputy Commissioner Larry Beechey, Provincial Commander of Traffic Safety.

Officials say this has been an especially bad year on the roads, with 232 people dying on OPP-patrolled highways, up from 195 at this time last year.