Farnworth talking tough on bad driving behaviour
B.C.Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth is considering tough new measures on excessive speeding, distracted driving and impaired driving in the New Year, according an editorial released to the media.
Here is Farnworth’s statement:
In an otherwise bad-news year, I’d like to share something positive: no matter how you get around, 2019 was, by many measures, the safest time to be on B.C.’s roads in years.
New statistics show the numbers of police-reported crashes, overall fatalities and injuries, motorcyclist fatalities, deaths linked to high-risk driving and deaths at intersections – where 60% of crashes occur – were all at their lowest levels in at least five years.