SGI is sending out the message that police around the province will be targeting aggressive drivers during Operation Fall Frenzy.
The two-day province-wide blitz takes place Oct. 10 and 11 and will see law enforcement pay particular attention to violations such as speeding, driving too fast for road conditions, running red lights, not stopping at stop signs, stunting, racing or passing to the right on a highway. In short, "frenzied" drivers are the target of this blitz.
Operation Fall Frenzy is held in conjunction with Operation Impact, a four-day nationwide blitz coordinated by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police that focuses on aggressive driving. Aggressive driving is attributed with more that 10,000 collisions, 92 deaths and over 4,300 injuries last year.
When this blitz took place last October 2012, 1,079 tickets including 620 aggressive driving violations were handed out.
During a provincial traffic blitz last month over 500 tickets were issued, said Andrew Cartnell, president and CEO of SGI, in a statement.
"Considering that excessive speed was a factor in nearly one-third of all fatal collisions in the province last year, isn't it better to be a few minutes late than to end up killing yourself or another innocent road user in a crash?"
In a statement Chief Troy Hagen, president of the Saskatchewan Association of Chiefs of Police, said "the real battle is changing the mindset of every driver. You don't own the road; you share it. Please slow down and obey the ruleslives do depend on it."
