{"id":37742,"date":"2020-10-15T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=37742"},"modified":"2020-10-15T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T22:11:42","slug":"opp-wrap-up-operation-impact-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/15\/opp-wrap-up-operation-impact-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"OPP Wrap Up Operation Impact Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/OPPCrest-e1501592123859-300x236.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to <strong>four <\/strong>fatal collisions on and off the road over the Thanksgiving Long Weekend, which claimed the lives of <strong>five <\/strong>people.<\/p>\n<p>Among the incidents was a double fatality collision involving a horse and buggy, in which two children lost their lives. Three other people were killed in separate collisions, one of which involved a teenager. A motorcyclist was among those who died, marking a particularly tragic year for motorcyclists, with <strong>38<\/strong> deaths this year compared to <strong>23<\/strong> this time last year.<\/p>\n<p>OPP officers were highly visible over the Thanksgiving Long Weekend, doing their part to keep drivers, passengers and other road users safe during Operation Impact (October 9-12, 2020).<\/p>\n<p>Officers laid <strong>6,246<\/strong> traffic-related charges during the national, annual campaign that targets aggressive drivers, motorists under the influence of alcohol\/drugs, inattentive drivers and road users who fail to wear a seat belt.<\/p>\n<p>Aggressive driving led the list of offences, with <strong>4,771<\/strong> speeding charges laid. Motorists driving at dangerously high speeds continued to endanger the lives of other road users, with <strong>159<\/strong> racing\/stunt driving charges laid.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers engaged in other dangerous behaviours were also held to account, with <strong>104<\/strong> distracted driving and <strong>92<\/strong> alcohol\/drug-impaired driving charges laid.\u00a0Drivers and passengers who failed to wear a seat belt made up <strong>144<\/strong> of the offences.<\/p>\n<p>A total of <strong>231<\/strong> people have died on OPP-patrolled roads so far this year, a significant number of which were preventable and linked to the same poor behaviours as those observed over the long weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to four fatal collisions on and off the road over the Thanksgiving Long Weekend, which claimed the lives of five people. Among the incidents was a double fatality collision involving a horse and buggy, in which two children lost their lives. Three other people were killed in separate collisions, &#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":[845],"class_list":["post-37742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial","tag-operation-impact"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-02 19:10:31","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\/37742","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=37742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37743,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37742\/revisions\/37743"}],"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=37742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}