NEWS RELEASE
BARRIE POLICE SERVICE
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Today marks the beginning of Canada Road Safety Week, a national campaign aimed at making Canada's roads the safest in the world. This annual awareness campaign is designed to increase public compliance with safe driving measures in order to save lives and reduce injuries on Canada’s roads.
The focus of this campaign continues to be on behaviours that put drivers, passengers, pedestrians and other vulnerable road users at risk: impaired driving, distracted driving, aggressive driving, and not wearing a seatbelt.
Canadians have a number of reasons they use to justify adopting unsafe driving behaviours and this year’s campaign challenges them to truly assess the risks of the decisions they make.
Each unsafe driving behaviour behind the wheel involves the potential risk of fines, suspensions, impounds, injuries, or even death. You could lose your money, your license, your vehicle, your physical or mental capacities, your wages or your life. Worse yet, you could be taking all these away from others you share the road with.
Whatever the reason, there is no excuse that justifies unsafe driving behaviour. It is simply #NotWorthTheRisk.
We want drivers to remember that the decisions they make, and the consequences of their actions, don’t just affect them. They impact their family and community, too.
"The Barrie Police Service is committed to making Barrie roads safer, and drivers can play an important role, too. Unsafe behaviours behind the wheel put drivers, passengers, pedestrians and other vulnerable road users at risk. Impaired driving, distracted driving, aggressive driving, and not wearing a seatbelt – it’s not worth the risk,” said Barrie Police Service Traffic Sergeant Chris Allport.
The Barrie Police Service is proud to be participating in this year’s Canada Road Safety Campaign. While this public safety initiative is part of a national effort to help advance Canada’s Road Safety Strategy 2025 to make Canada’s roads the safest in the world, we are confident that our local efforts will help make the roads in Barrie among the safest in Canada.
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