Drivers need to focus

Even one person dying on our highways is one too many.

So says OPP Sergeant Dave Rektor, who tells 570 News about this year’s Easter long-weekend safety blitz.

Rektor says with the exceptionally nice weather coming this weekend things are slightly different than other long-weekends.

Rektor says driver inattention increases when the weather improves — for example, drivers get sleepy in warm sunlight; or drivers drop the roof and blare the tunes, cutting down on focus.

Rektor says there’s no other way to say it: there’s a small percentage of drivers who are killing people.

He says people who drive aggressively, impaired, or without seatbelts are putting everybody at risk.

OPP stats show alcohol was a factor in 18% of fatalities resulting from motor vehicle collisions in 2009.

Seatbelt non-compliance and/or speeding were a factor in 26% of fatalities resulting from motor vehicle collisions in the same year.

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