“Saving Lives” During Canada Road Safety Week 2017

(St. John’s, NL), May 16, 2017 – The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary (RNC) is recognizing Canada Road Safety Week 2017 May 16-22, 2017.

Canada Road Safety Week, which aligns with the first long weekend of the Spring/Summer season, is an initiative designed to remind people that an essential goal of the enforcement is to save lives and reduce injuries on our roadways.

The RNC has partnered with Newfoundland and Labrador RCMP, Service NL and Newfoundland & Labrador Liquor Corporation on the Avalon Peninsula this year. Officers will focus on common provincial statutes and criminal code offences such as: speeding; dangerous and imprudent driving; seatbelts; adherence to traffic control devices; move over law; impaired driving and adherence to provincial liquor regulations.

Over the coming days officers will be conducting traffic safety stops and, in partnership with the RCMP, conducting traffic safety checkpoints at various locations on the Avalon Peninsula. The RNC will also be participating in a number of road safety activities throughout the province in the Corner Brook Region and in Labrador West.

Canada Road Safety Week is sponsored by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) and Transport Canada and is part of Canada’s Road Safety Strategy 2025, which has a goal of making Canada’s roads the safest in the world by 2025. “Dedicated to improving public safety on our roadways.”

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Cst. Geoffrey G. Higdon #819
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