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Speeding tickets in Saskatchewan came fast and furious in April.
In a media release Wednesday, SGI said there were 7,165 speeding tickets issued by police officers in the province during the April Traffic Spotlight.
“There are 43,200 minutes in April, so that works out to an average of one speeding ticket written every six minutes,” the SGI release said, noting those numbers don’t include tickets issued via photo radar.
There were 250 tickets handed out to drivers for exceeding the speed limit by more than 35 kilometres per hour, and 65 tickets issued to drivers for going over the limit by more than 50 km/h.
There also were 330 tickets for speeding in a school zone, 38 for going more than 60 km/h while passing highway workers, and 528 tickets for exceeding 60 km/h when passing an emergency vehicle or tow truck at a roadside with its lights flashing.
According to SGI, traffic enforcement in April also resulted in 456 impaired driving-related violations (including 337 Criminal Code offences), 747 distracted driving violations (with 641 of those for using a cellphone while driving) and 473 seatbelt/child restraint violations.
