Bullet News GRAND BEND – About a dozen OPP officers set up orange and yellow pylons to divide out three lanes of traffic in a kickoff RIDE program set up on Hwy. 81, the dividing line between Huron and Lambton counties.
Drivers from both directions were stopped by police officers and asked whether they’d been drinking, in a late afternoon message to the public that police will be checking all weekend long in an attempt to keep the roads safe this Thanksgiving.
Later in the evening, the officers will disperse throughout the counties, moving the RIDE check from one location to another, said Const. Jamie Stanley, of the Huron County OPP. RIDE programs will continue through the long weekend.
Drivers will be given wallet cases to hold insurance and ownership slips, and pamphlets or postcards that outline the impact of drinking and driving on a driver’s record.
Almost 250 people have died on Ontario roads patrolled by OPP this year.
