The Upper Ottawa Valley Detachment of the OPP wrapped up its Easter long weekend spring seat belt campaign which started on March 30 and concluded on April 2.
Over the course of the campaign officers conducted targeted enforcement looking for motorists who were not obeying seatbelt laws. As a result, Upper Ottawa Valley OPP officers laid 18 seatbelt charges.
Although seatbelt use was the main traffic focus of the weekend officers also conducted enforcement and education activities associated with negative driving behaviours including distracted driving, impaired driving and aggressive driving in order to reduce the amount of motor vehicle collisions, injuries and deaths on OPP patrolled highways. In addition to the seatbelt offences, officers laid two impaired driving charges under the Criminal Code along with 152 speeding charges, 19 hazardous moving violations and 10 distracted driving charges under the Highway Traffic Act (HTA) over the four-day campaign.
