Local police will be watching the roads over the Thanksgiving long weekend, joining a national campaign.
Superior East Ontario Provincial Police Community Safety Officer Constable Ashley Nickle explains the detachment's participating in Operation Impact, which will mean a focus on road safety.
Constable Nickle reminds officers will be watching for the main causal factors in fatal collisions.
While Nickle notes the summer saw reduced traffic compared to previous years - due to the pandemic - she says there's been more traffic of late, but there have also been multiple single or multiple vehicle collisions over the last week, "luckily" resulting in only "non-life-threatening injuries", at most.
Nickle also reminds everyone to slow down, noting two recent incidents of stunt driving on Highways 101 and 129, where the vehicles were clocked travelling over 160 kilometres an hour where the posted speed limit is only 80 - both had their vehicle automatically impounded for fourteen days and their licence automatically suspended 30 days.
OPP say they've already seen 208 deaths on OPP-patrolled roads this year, with more than 39,400 collisions reported before October began - 5100 resulted in injuries, 195 in deaths, including 46 collisions involving a commercial motor vehicle resulting in 54 deaths.