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OPP Planning Traffic Initiative for Long Weekend

OPP will be targeting aggressive drivers as well as those not obeying Move Over law

OPP are reminding motorists about the province's Move Over law. 

During the Civic long weekend, OPP will be keeping a close watch on drivers approaching emergency vehicles and tow trucks, to ensure motorists are complying with this law.

Last year OPP laid nearly 13-hundred charges against drivers who failed to comply.
 
Non-compliance with Ontario's Move Over law carries a $490 to $2,000 fine plus three demerit points upon conviction. 

Subsequent offences carry a fine between $1,000 and $4,000, possible jail time of up to six months and suspension of your driver's licence for up to two years.

Police say they'll also be targeting aggressive, inattentive and impaired drivers, as well as drivers and passengers who are not buckled up this weekend.

Those driving behaviours remain the leading causes in road fatalities. 

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