OPP stop Porsche doing 209 km/h
Busy weekend on Niagara highways for officers
The OPP was busy on Niagara’s highway over the weekend.
Sunday at 2 a.m., complaints from the public about a car travelling Niagara-bound on the QEW near Casablanca Bloulevard at a high rate of speed put an officer on alert. The officer caught up with the red 2016 Porsche in St. Catharines.
“Our officer intercepted it on the QEW near Seventh Street,” said Const. Rob Knight of the Niagara detachment of the OPP. “As you can see from the photo, she was travelling 209 km/h in a 100-km/h zone.”
The OPP charged the driver, an 18-year-old woman from North York, with stunt driving. Police impounded the Porsche for seven days, and she was handed a seven-day roadside suspension.
On Saturday evening in Niagara Falls, the OPP conducted a RIDE checkpoint on the QEW ramp at Thorold Stone Road and nabbed four drivers in a 30-minute period.
“We use the ramps on Thorold Stone Road,” Knight said. “They
‘‘ “Speeding didn’t save them any time. Each stop takes about 10 minutes after all the paperwork and checks are completed. Then there are further problems with court and what they want to do about the ticket. It’s just not worth it.” OPP CONST. ROB KNIGHT
are all pretty good for RIDE checks. The officers have space there, and it is well lit.”
Between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., the OPP charged one driver with operating a vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 80 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. Three other drivers were given three-day administrative licence suspensions for driving with a blood alcohol concentration of over 50 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood.
“The three-day suspension shows up as an alert on the roadside screening device,” Knight said. “The alert is calibrated between 50 milligrams and 100 milligrams.
“There are other jurisdictions, especially in Europe, where the legal limit is 50. What the science tells us is that people can be impaired even at the lower rate.”
The OPP also stopped and charged 11 speeding drivers in a 90-minute period on May 24 on the QEW in Lincoln. The officers, working as a team, stopped a driver every eight minutes during the morning commute. The enforcement ran 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
“People are headed to work and obviously going too fast,” Knight said. “Speeding didn’t save them any time. Each stop takes about 10 minutes after all the paperwork and checks are completed. Then there are further problems with court and what they want to do about the ticket. It is just not worth it.”