July has been the month of excessive speed in British Columbia.
The BC Highway Patrol says they have issued 132 tickets for excessive speeding since the start of the month – an average of 8.25 per day.
The Patrol is calling attention to two incidents in Prince George.
On July 12th, an Alberta driver was stopped for flying down the Old Cariboo Highway at over double the speed limit – 212 kph in a 100 zone.
Two days later, a Jetta was ticketed going 122 kph in a 70 zone. The driver was unlicensed and did not have insurance.
It is not just Prince George, excessive speeders have been regularly nailed across BC this month.
A motorcyclist in Nelson was clocked doing 142 kph in a 70 zone – the driver had a learner’s license and was not allowed to ride over 60 kph without a supervisor.
Central Okanagan officers stopped 40 excessive speeders between July 8th and 15th.
Excessive speed, defined as going 40 kph or more over the limit, comes with a ticket between $368 and $483, and your vehicle is impounded for a week.
“Every driver needs to realize that the consequences for excessive speeding go far beyond getting an expensive ticket and your vehicle impounded. You have far less time to react to anything when going that fast which is why excessive speed is so deadly,” Insp. Chad Badry, acting Operations Officer for BC Highway Patrol said in a news release.
Something going on in the Prince George area you think people should know about?
Send us a news tip by emailing [email protected].
