OPP set to launch Distracted-Driving Campaign March 14

(SOUTHERN BRUCE COUNTY, ON) – As the OPP gets ready to conduct public education and targeted enforcement for its annual Distracted-Driving Campaign, OPP collision data reveals that driver inattention was a causal factor in 12 of 51 fatal collisions, to date, this year.
 

The OPP’s 2015 collision data is shaping up to see a seventh consecutive year in which inattentive driving surpasses impaired driving as a causal factor in the fatal collisions it investigates. Both of these fatality categories are dangerous, preventable driving behaviours that result in the senseless loss of life on Ontario roads every year. 
 

What can you do to help?

• Be mindful that distracted driving  poses a significant  threat to the well-being of your family and friends;

• Start conversations about distracted driving with your family, your friends, your colleagues and shed the negative light on it that it deserves; 

• If you are in a vehicle being driven by someone who is driving while distracted, always speak up. Be firm and say: “Enough! Too many people are dying because of distracted driving. It needs to stop and you need to stop.” Make this your new attitude every day.

• If you see someone driving in a dangerous manner while driving distracted, call 9-1-1 to report them.

• Be self-disciplined every time you get behind the wheel; do not allow yourself to be distracted in any way while you are driving. 

“I find it hard to imagine a phone call or text message so important that it’s worth risking lives to receive," says acting inspector Mike Beatty, detachment commander, South Bruce OPP. "Distracted driving is a completely preventable and totally unacceptable threat to all road users. I thank the drivers who follow the rules and share the road; to those drivers who continue to put others at risk, the South Bruce OPP is watching for you.”
 

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