Motorcycle Officers of RCMP Combined Traffic Services encountered several instances of significant motorist infractions this past weekend.
While on patrol in the Battlefords, Lloydminster and Meadow Lake areas for various unsafe-driving behaviours (such as cell phone use, not wearing seatbelts, disobeying stop signs, impaired driving, speeding, etc) the six officers handed out 370 tickets and 279 warnings to the public. Fifty tickets were given to drivers going faster than 60 km/hr when passing emergency vehicles, there were also 98 seatbelt tickets, 35 tickets for cell phone usage while driving and one ticket for an impaired driving offence.
Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan handed out 370 tickets this past weekend. (Submitted photo/RCMP SK Media)
RCMP releases results of Lloydminster, North Battleford area weekend traffic enforcement blitz
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The Saskatchewan RCMP has released the results of a recent traffic blitz in the Lloydminster-North Battleford area, along with other locations in the midwest.
On the July 8th to 11th weekend, officers in the Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan Motorcycle Officers division were out on local roads and highways, checking for unsafe driving behaviours like being on the phone while driving, not using seatbelts, impaired driving and ignoring traffic signage or speeding.
(File photo courtesy of Saskatchewan RCMP)
During traffic enforcement last week, one Saskatchewan driver received fines totalling almost $2,000 and another received two speeding tickets within six minutes of each other.
The Saskatchewan RCMP says those were two of the highlights from a four-day stretch of traffic enforcement by motorcycle officers in west-central Saskatchewan between last Thursday and Sunday.
Six officers with the Saskatchewan RCMP Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan (CTSS) were travelling in and around Battleford, North Battleford, Lloydminster, Meadow Lake and other nearby areas to watch for unsafe driving behaviours.
Officers were watching for cellphone use while driving, passengers not wearing seatbelts, drivers disobeying stop signs and other traffic signage, impaired driving, and speeding especially in construction zones and near active emergency vehicles.
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Between July 8 and 11, six officers roved around the communities of Battleford, North Battleford, Lloydminster, Meadow Lake and the surrounding areas.
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In that period, they gave out 370 tickets. Of those, 50 were for drivers going more than 60 kilometres per hour when passing emergency vehicles, 98 were seatbelt tickets, 35 were for cellphone use while driving and one was an impaired driving offence. In addition, 279 warnings were issued.
One event highlighted by RCMP in a release Wednesday was a driver pulled over for going 160 km/h in a 60 km/h zone in North Battleford. The driver was also swerving through traffic and officers found open liquor in the vehicle. The driver provided a breath sample and was over the legal limit.
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