Okanagan drivers’ need for speed results in hundreds of impounds, tickets

Okanagan drivers aren’t frightened to enactment the pedal to the metallic connected highways, a hazard that comes with a hefty consequence.

The connection comes arsenic the Kelowna B.C. Highway Patrol releases that they person impounded hundreds of cars already this twelvemonth successful effect to excessive speeding and assertive driving.

“The fig of conveyance compounds is rather staggering successful the Kelowna area,” said Cpl. Michael McLaughlin.

McLaughlin says that past twelvemonth determination were 225 vehicles towed and impounded owed to excessive speeding. However, this twelvemonth the fig of impounds has much than doubled.

“We are up to 548 impounds arsenic a effect of excessive driving.”

The striking statistic is not a nonstop effect of much policing, says McLaughlin, but a operation of factors.

“We astatine B.C. Highway Patrol has been focusing much connected assertive driving behaviours, peculiarly excessive speeding, truthful determination is that. But, determination is nary mode these kinds of numbers don’t travel from radical driving excessively accelerated and they are doing it much than they utilized to,” said McLaughlin.

Adding to the fig of drivers caught speeding excessively, RCMP issued 45 speeding tickets successful conscionable 2 days portion monitoring a schoolhouse portion connected Hollywood Road South wherever immoderate drivers were clocked doing much than treble the posted velocity limit.

Calum MacMillan of Young Drivers of Canada successful Kelowna, B.C., says that speeding is not usually a caller driver’s habit. It develops implicit their driving vocation arsenic they get much comfy down the wheel. However, helium echoes that speeding is dangerous.

“If you are going 30 km/h oregon lower, if you deed a pedestrian, their accidental of endurance is 90 per cent,” said MacMillan.

“If you spell up to adjacent 45 km/h they are adjacent little than 50 per cent apt to survive.”

If drivers are consenting to spell faster than the velocity limit, they should beryllium prepared to wage up.

“An excessive speeding summons is significant, you are looking astatine a $368 fine, 3 punishment points connected your driving grounds and a minimum seven-day impoundment,” said Kyla Lee, lawyer.

“In addition, an excessive speeding summons volition besides trigger the excessive operator hazard premium which is simply a $340 a twelvemonth premium for 3 years.”

Lee says that drivers tin quality the summons but it volition inactive travel astatine a cost.

“If you are palmy successful your quality of an excessive speeding ticket, you bash not get your impound fees reimbursed to you,” said Lee.