The last long weekend of the summer saw plenty of unsafe driving.
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) West Region laid a total of 2,426 charges from September 1 to September 4.
This year's traffic campaign focused on the "Big Four" bad driving behaviours which include aggressive driving, failure to wear a seatbelt, distracted driving, and impaired driving.
Charges laid for the "Big Four" are as follows:
Speeding charges: 1,450
Failure to wear a seatbelt charges: 128
Distracted Driving charges: 31
Impaired Driving charges: 54
The west region encompasses Grey, Bruce, Huron, Perth, Middlesex, Elgin, Oxford, Norfolk, Lambton, Chatham-Kent, and Essex counties. Charges laid within those areas break down like this:
These four factors are the leading contributors to death, injury, and property damage on Ontario roads and highways.
