Weekend checkpoints pick off bad drivers

Posted May 26, 2010 02:49:37 PM.

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RCMP spotted some bad driving behaviour on the long weekend.

Checkpoints resulted in 113 tickets for Motor Vehicle Act violations in Metro.

A man on a motorcycle was charged with stunting – officers clocked him going 200 kilometres per hour in a 100 km zone on Highway 102 near Lower Sackville. They seized his bike.

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