With the long weekend approaching, the Ontario Provincial Police are focusing their attention on aggressive and impaired drivers, seat belts, child car seats and fatigue on the province's roads and highways.
This weekend, police will concentrate enforcement resources on both road and water. Resources have been assigned to Highways 69, 11 and 17. Officers will be working schedules that will provide strict enforcement of highway traffic through small towns.
Police will be concentrating on highway traffic patrols during the peak travel days of Friday and Monday and redirecting focus to waterway patrols Saturday and Sunday when boaters take to the water.
According to an OPP news release, between Victoria Day and Labour Day 2005, 18 people were killed in traffic collisions and five lost their lives on water (three of the five incidents were alcohol-related).
