{"id":3633,"date":"2017-05-25T22:56:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T02:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2017-09-12T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T02:24:07","slug":"opp-investigate-two-off-road-vehicle-deaths-and-lay-numerous-charges-during-the-victoria-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/25\/opp-investigate-two-off-road-vehicle-deaths-and-lay-numerous-charges-during-the-victoria-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"OPP investigate two off-road vehicle deaths and lay numerous charges during the Victoria Day Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 25, 2017 @ 22:56<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were kept busy on and off roads leading up to and over the Victoria Day Long Weekend, investigating two off-road vehicle deaths and laying numerous charges. During Canada Road Safety Week (May 16-22, 2017), the OPP laid close to\u00a0<strong>9,400<\/strong>\u00a0speeding charges, with an additional\u00a0<strong>165\u00a0<\/strong>street racing charges laid against motorists who were driving 50 km\/h over the posted speed limit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officers also laid\u00a0<strong>649<\/strong>\u00a0seat belt charges,\u00a0<strong>482<\/strong>\u00a0distracted driving charges,\u00a0<strong>124\u00a0<\/strong>alcohol\/drug impaired charges and various other traffic-related charges to motorists whose driving behaviours threatened the safety of other road users on one of the busiest traffic weekends of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While the OPP was relieved to see the weekend end with no fatalities on Ontario roads, officers did respond to two separate off-road vehicle (ORV) incidents in which both ORV drivers died.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Canada Road Safety Week is an annual national campaign aimed at reducing the number of traffic deaths linked to the Big Four causal factors, which are impaired, inattentive, aggressive driving and lack of seat belt use. The OPP is reminding drivers that while the campaign is over, officers remain highly focused on changing these driving behaviours 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"133\" \/><strong>About the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)<\/strong> - The Ontario Provincial Police is<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0one of North America's largest deployed police services with more than 6,200 uniformed officers, 3,100 civilian employees and 800 Auxiliary officers. They\u00a0provide essential services that ensure the safety and security of the people of the Province of Ontario.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"p1\"><\/p><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 25, 2017 @ 22:56 &nbsp; Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were kept busy on and off roads leading up to and over the Victoria Day Long Weekend, investigating two off-road vehicle deaths and laying numerous charges. During Canada Road Safety Week (May 16-22, 2017), the OPP laid close to\u00a09,400\u00a0speeding charges, with an additional\u00a0165\u00a0street racing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 20:34:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}