Police Targeting Drivers Who Fail to Yield
Prince George, B.C. – Police have started a month long campaign focusing on failure to yield and other high-risk driving behaviours.
According to ICBC, 1,300 pedestrians are injured or killed in crashes at intersections in B.C. every year (in North Central B.C., 550 crashes, including 5 pedestrian fatalities in Prince George from October 2014 to January 2015).
“High-risk driving, including failing to yield, speeding, following too closely and ignoring a traffic control device, contributes to almost half (43%) of all police-reported crashes that result in injuries or fatalities each year in B.C.” says ICBC.
Along with stepped-up police enforcement, Speed Watch volunteers will also be set up in communities across the province to help encourage drivers to slow down.
“No one wants their actions to cause a tragedy so we’re asking drivers to always be ready to yield the right-of-way to other road users,” said Lindsay Matthews, ICBC’s director responsible for road safety. “When turning left, don’t let pedestrians be in your blind spot.”
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Go to Rainbow and Ahbau and you can nab 23 out of 25 drivers for not even stopping at the stop signs.
Go to the Hart Highway and North Nechako and you can nab 23 out of 25 drivers for speeding well above the posted speed limit.
Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 @ 12:32 PM by anotherside
Go to the Hart Highway and North Nechako and you can nab 23 out of 25 drivers for speeding well above the posted speed limit.
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Going with the flow of traffic is hardly high risk. Left lane bandits on the other hand are extremely dangerous. As are tailgaters and people who don’t signal and people who can’t find the on switch for their lights.
axman says …
Going with the flow of traffic is hardly high risk.
The police say …
Along with stepped-up police enforcement, Speed Watch volunteers will also be set up in communities across the province to help encourage drivers to slow down.
Ya know, I’ve always been a right-lane driver. But with Axman’s insatiable bitching about left lane drivers, I almost want to drive in that lane, just praying he drives up, and has to slow down. A person can’t buy that kind of quality entertainment, watching him lose his mind.
This is about obeying existing traffic laws. Everything else is hot air. Hopefully they will write lots and lots of tickets!
I just wish I could be as good a driver as the 95% of the PG population think that they are on our streets and hi-ways. Be patient, I will get there. For the time being, you will have to go around me when I am in the left lane driving 80 k/m in a 70 k/m as I have to turn off left a couple of k/m a head. Wish me luck!
Oh come on ohreally (sarcasm alert). Stay in the outside lane like you’re suppose to, and when you get within say 100 metres of your turn, just flip on your signal, and the traffic will slow down and let you change lanes to make your turn. You make it sound like you have to make your lane change a couple of kilometers in advance because PG drivers are so rude that they’ll close up any gap rather than let you change lanes. I for one am very offended that you think that of us. We are the most courteous drivers and go out of our way to make driving easier for our fellow motorists. Sure you don’t live in Quesnel and are just confused?
axman says …
Going with the flow of traffic is hardly high risk.
The police say …
Along with stepped-up police enforcement, Speed Watch volunteers will also be set up in communities across the province to help encourage drivers to slow down.
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Apples and oranges. If the traffic is flowing at 60kmh in a 50 zone it’s a pretty safe bet that there is no high risk at 60. It’s the guy in the jacked up dodge doing 90 while most others are doing 70 that there is a high risk of an accident.
Those are the guys they need to go after, not the people that are going with the flow.
And, of course, all left lane hogs must be flogged.
Posted on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 @ 1:24 PM by Brother Gecko
Ya know, I’ve always been a right-lane driver. But with Axman’s insatiable bitching about left lane drivers, I almost want to drive in that lane, just praying he drives up, and has to slow down. A person can’t buy that kind of quality entertainment, watching him lose his mind.
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I always keep right except to pass. It’s not a difficult concept.
ski51: That is funny! I love it!
ski51, a friend of mine jokes that some people travel in the left lane because they will be making a left turn when they get to Quesnel!
Well, I think that he is joking, haha!
Texting and failing to Yield. Some concern should also be shown to drivers with pets on their laps when driving. Attention is taken away from driver when pet is in line of sight of driver or one hand on pet and one hand on vehicle steering wheel.
Have to agree with that. These people driving with a dog sitting in their lap are insane.
I think of a dog more as a safety device – a secondary airbag sort of.
If an airbag goes off with Fluffy on their lap, they’re going to have Poochie Pâté splattered all over them.
How bout all the crap people hang off their mirrors impeding their view?
Yeah, it was a joke – hope everyone took it that way – but kidding aside, you’re absolutely right – people say they love their dog, then why is it between you and an explosive device.
The major problem with traffic flow is differential speed. Traffic surveys will indicate what the speed naturally should be. To set limits arbitrarily low is more of a detriment to traffic safety than most any other initiatives. They are set low to collect ‘tax’, and also to have a built in scapegoat to lay blame when vehicles collide.
In northern BC the traffic likes to flow at 120kph on Rte.16&97, Foothills BLVD. north of 1st is 90-100kph. At the same time the city bus through the sub-divisions at 50 kph is too fast.
Realistic speed limits would lower the incident rate and those that are truly excessively fast or slow or just can’t drive can be dealt with.
The Hart was supposed to be 80 as per the safety assessment that was conducted. The police convinced them to make it 70 because they said people do 10 over the posted limit so at 80 they would be at the safe speed even though they would be over the posted limit. The problem is some people won’t drive over the posted limit so they are driving too slow at 70 and become a hazard.
Not sure where you get your figures from Furbink but I drive the 16 west superhighway every day a few times each direction.
Sometimes flow is around 85 (more first thing in the morning) but usually around 75-80.
Speed traps at the Art Knapps don’t net the same as the Walmart off ramp because it drops from 80 to 60 kmh and they can nab those who are still doing 75-80 – haven’t seen a trap at the top of Peden Hill in a coons age, now they like to sit at the new subdivision on the way to the University as they moved the limit drop from 70 kmh to 50 kmh just before the subdivision instead of by the lights on Ospika.
Up Peden Hill is quicker about 80 on most days whereas going down is usually around 70-75 then traffic bunches up at the Boston Pizza lights with College Heights traffic entering from Rona and you are lucky to do the 60 you are allowed. You do get the odd donkey doing 100 but rarely as they have to weave from the left to right lane and back to do it. I have never seen anyone fly by me doing 120 on 16 west through the city and I drive it daily for the last 15 years. Before they installed the barricades all the way up from Walmart the flow did feel faster tho.
Slinky, I was referring to driving 16 and 97 outside of the city. And , yes the speed change from 70 to 50kph on Tyner is just blatant tax grab, the ruling elite setting you up to fail, public safety does not enter into the equation at all.
Can they ticket the idiots who have no idea what the difference between a merge and a Yield are?
There is no tax grab on Tyner, stupid people will speed through there, that’s life.
50 kmph on a two lane road with two new subdivisions and a transit bus stop that doesn’t have a pull out. Yup, the ruling elite are definitely out to get you Furbink.
I welcome any blitz…I just hope they venture out to Chief Lake Road and Foothills, around where all of the burnt rubber marks are. Rubber is not hard to find if the police ever showed up.
I live in University Heights and I’m always happy to see the police out enforcing on Tyner. That bus stop is used by kids in this neighbourhood heading to high school. No crosswalk or anything. Dark in the winter. You SHOULD be slowing down. Pedestrian and cycling traffic has increased and they don’t always stick to the trail. No skin off anyone’s nose to slow down a little sooner. Oh but wait – it might take you seven minutes and 15 seconds to get where you’re going instead of seven minutes. Tragic.
lhl then why is the Hart anything but 50kmh, there are kids everywhere and there are driveways that enter onto the roadway not just an arterial connections, but that aside – why have traffic speed up to 70 after the university just to slow them to 50 around a corner. The only reason is city hall planners without a clue giving the RCMP a 20 kmh drop to stick a speed trap on a couple times a month. There are a couple money grab sites that are their go to moves, I am all for enforcement but when it comes close to entrapment like the Walmart 20 kmh drop that is what makes people look at the RCMP enforcement as a money grab and not actual enforcement.
When the public knows there is enforcement but not WHERE there is enforcement to grab a few quick dollars, then things change and there is more respect for the profession. It sounds like some divisions are working hard but the traffic division is a farce.
Do some think Stop Signs are a Money Grab too ? Make your own Rules and all we be fine.
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