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Every year it's the same story. The warm weather comes, a long weekend starts, and people flock from the GTA like birds from winter.
But in the process, amidst crowded roads and frustrated faces, certain individuals take the opportunity to do some dangerous things on the province's highways, and the Ontario Provincial Police are working overtime to limit just that sort of thing. As of late Saturday, several hundred charges had already been made and they're expecting thousands more before Tuesday morning. But unlike long weekends in the past, the OPP are no longer calling it a "safety blitz."
"To us, a blitz is a short-term localized enforcement event," said OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley. "It's a seven day a week, 24-hour process."
So who are the main offenders?
"Every officer that's out here, we're looking for three things," Woolley admits. "Seatbelts, aggressive driving and impairment.
"This is life and death," he continued. "When you consider the energy of the weight of the car and the speed of the vehicles . what they're doing is like firing a gun into the crowd."
Over Victoria Day weekend in 2006,
But in the process, amidst crowded roads and frustrated faces, certain individuals take the opportunity to do some dangerous things on the province's highways, and the Ontario Provincial Police are working overtime to limit just that sort of thing. As of late Saturday, several hundred charges had already been made and they're expecting thousands more before Tuesday morning. But unlike long weekends in the past, the OPP are no longer calling it a "safety blitz."
"To us, a blitz is a short-term localized enforcement event," said OPP Sgt. Cam Woolley. "It's a seven day a week, 24-hour process."
So who are the main offenders?
"Every officer that's out here, we're looking for three things," Woolley admits. "Seatbelts, aggressive driving and impairment.
"This is life and death," he continued. "When you consider the energy of the weight of the car and the speed of the vehicles . what they're doing is like firing a gun into the crowd."
Over Victoria Day weekend in 2006,