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06/26/09
Fast and Furious
Link: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/04/30/fast-and-furious/
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Mixx“At 49 km/h over the speed limit, you’re a member of society and you’re welcome to live amongst us,” says Gary Parker, a paralegal who has represented dozens of drivers netted by the new law. “At 50 over, you’re now a monster worthy of jail. It makes absolutely no sense at all.”
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10/09/08
OPP launch holiday blitz
OPP will be keeping an extra close eye on seat belts. Their annual fall seat belt initiative kicks off today through to the 12th. Officers will be looking to ensure drivers and passengers are buckled up and following the rules of the road.
10/06/08
Time's up on `street racing' law
Link: http://www.wheels.ca/articlecategory/article/395019
Jim Kenzie
Special to the Star
Oct 04, 2008
Anniversaries are often a time for taking stock. They are usually happy occasions. Candles are lit. Cakes are baked. Presents are handed out.
On such occasions, one can be forgiven for perhaps taking too rosy a view of the past.
Perhaps that's what's behind the shiny, happy faces of those celebrating the first anniversary of Section 172 of the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, which gives the police the power to seize vehicles going 50 km/h over the speed limit. This law, passed one year ago last Tuesday, also allows police to impose fines of up to $10,000 before the accused even gets a day in court.
They are still averaging 23 scofflaws a day. Now that is down from 40 a day when the crackdown began, but we don't know how many cops they have on patrol now versus then.
Regardless, with the amount of publicity this has received, you'd have thought that if the law had any deterrent effect whatsoever, nobody would dare take a chance.
Not so's you'd notice.
09/24/08
2 OPP officers avoid instant penalties after being charged under street-racing law
Link: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/09/03/opp-streetracing.html
Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino says it won't happen again
The law is equal to all and so is accountability and I think it shows that we mean business,' says OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino. (Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Julian Fantino has said repeatedly that drivers who go 50 km/h over the speed limit will have their car seized on the spot and their licence suspended for seven days — with no exceptions.
But there were two exceptions, and both were OPP officers.
Const. Michael Deyell and Const. Lloyd Tapp are the only two police officers charged under Ontario's street-racing laws. Both were on-duty, in marked cars, and charged by their colleagues.
It's alleged Deyell was driving at 60 km/h over the speed limit in December 2007. His cruiser slammed into two horses, killing them. Deyell himself was injured and sent to hospital.
Tapp is accused of driving his cruiser 50 km/h over the limit in March — and was clocked by an OPP colleague.
Under the new legislation, both officers should have had their licences and cars seized but that didn't happen.
Fantino said that was a mistake.
"The law is equal to all and so is accountability and I think it shows that we mean business," he said.
"We're not playing favourites here. I mean, people know what the rules of the road are and I think that we have to be transparent. We have to be consistent and we have to be fair."
Since new street-racing legislation came into effect last year, police have trumpeted the fact they've charged nearly 8,000 drivers.
09/22/08
ticket event' finds lots of takers 24-hour blitz nabs 1,944 speeding drivers
Link: http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=8a731191-e384-40fc-9b3a-15e7b70349da
Clara Ho, The Edmonton Journal
Published: Wednesday, September 17
EDMONTON -- Edmonton police wrapped up a 24-hour speeding enforcement blitz Tuesday morning after issuing a total of 1,944 speeding tickets.
"We want people of our city to realize speeding is not going to be tolerated," police Chief Mike Boyd said Tuesday at police headquarters downtown.
"We're going to take whatever action we need to bring so we can establish safety on our streets.
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"Don't Speed" signs are up around town as part of a 24-hour anti-speeding blitz.
Photographer, The Journal
"Operation 24 Hours" was a joint effort by Edmonton police, Alberta sheriffs, the Office of Traffic Safety and the city's transportation department, implemented to tackle Edmonton's growing speeding problem.
The blitz was conducted to gauge the speeding problem, which has been brought forth as a key concern by many residents, said Boyd.
From 7 a.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday, police and sheriffs were out in full force using enforcement methods such as aircraft, photo radar, mobile and stationary radar, and lasers. Signs were up around the city, flashing the words "Big ticket event" to remind drivers to slow down.
In total, 2,267 traffic tickets were issued, which included 1,944 speeding tickets. In comparison, police issued 2,186 speeding tickets throughout the entire month of August.
People caught in the blitz were of all ages, from all walks of life, said Staff Sgt. Bill Horne, adding that police caught everyone "from high-school kids to grandmas and grandpas."
One of the highest recorded speeds was a driver going 173 km/h in a 70 km/h zone at 91st Street and 23rd Avenue, Boyd said. It was near the location of a traffic-related double fatality about two weeks ago.
Other high-speed areas were near Groat Road and Emily Murphy Park Road, where speeders reached up to 140 km/h in a 60 km/h zone, and near 109th Street and 70th Avenue, where the highest recorded speed was 100 km/h in a 50 km/h zone.
In one instance, a driver was caught on Anthony Henday Drive. As soon as he was ticketed, he sped off and was caught a second time going even faster.
"Enforcement is something we need to do, because for some people that's the only way they will learn," Boyd said. "It's if they're summoned enough times and it hits them in the pocketbook."
Boyd said Edmonton police don't have quotas for speeding tickets.
The results of the blitz will be analyzed to gain a clearer picture of the problem in the city and examine why more people speed in particular areas of the city.
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SPEEDING RISKS
- In 2007, police investigated 148 collisions and found that speed played a factor in one out of four.
- In 2007, 22 crashes resulting in injury and 11 fatal crashes involved excessive speed.
- So far in 2008, two fatal crashes and four that resulted in injuries involved excessive speed.
- In Canada, speed is a factor in 30 per cent of fatal crashes and 12 per cent of all crashes.
Figures from Edmonton police and Canada Safety Council
© The Edmonton Journal 2008
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