OPP cracking down on unsafe drivers over Canada Day long weekend
Posted June 30, 2016 7:33 am.
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Enjoy your Canada Day long weekend, and enjoy it safely. That’s the message from Ontario provincial police who hope not to see a repeat of last weekend when eight people were killed in highway crashes.
As with every long weekend, the OPP will be out in full-force targeting distracted, impaired and aggressive drivers.
“We don’t want to see a repeat of what we saw this past weekend […] absolute tragedy,” OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt told 680 NEWS.
Last weekend, eight people were killed in four separate crashes on OPP-patrolled roads, including four people in a horrific crash on Highway 400 near Finch Avenue.
A motorcyclist and his passenger also died in a separate crash.
So far this year, 128 people have been killed on provincial roads.