Drivers need to focus
Posted Apr 1, 2010 01:08:22 PM.
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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.