Despite a warning they would step up enforcement over the Thanksgiving Day Weekend, the Ontario Provincial Police still wrote up a lot of tickets.
Operation Impact targeted four problem areas for drivers, driving impaired, speeding, distracted driving, and not wearing seatbelts.
Police issued the warning after releasing statistics that showed 239 people had died on OPP-patrolled roads so far this year.
Of those deaths, police blamed aggressive driving for 46, 44 to not wearing seatbelts, 42 were caused by driver inattention, and impaired driving claimed the lives of another 33.
In Essex County alone last weekend, the OPP laid 110 speeding tickets. Police caught two drivers stunt driving, two for driving impaired, one for distracted driving, and one for not buckling up.
Another 14 tickets were issued for moving violations under the Highway Traffic Act.
