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FROM: Frontenac Detachment RELEASE:
15 May 2008
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Police Seek
Graffiti Bandit
Members of Frontenac Ontario
Provincial Police are investigating damage to the Prince
Charles Public School
located in the village of Verona
that occurred between Friday May 9th and Monday May 12th 2008. The school’s south west walls and a
tree were spray painted with profanity.
The culprit(s) also damaged the school’s soccer net. If anyone has information or may have seen
anything please call Cst. Joe Marshall at
613-372-1932 Frontenac OPP or Crime Stoppers at
1-800-222-TIPS.
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Contact: Natalie McDowell
Provincial Constable
Frontenac Detachment
Office: 613-372-1932
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Detachment RELEASE:
IMMEDIATELY
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Student Struck by School Bus
Frontenac OPP are investigating
a serious pedestrian-school bus collision that occurred earlier today at
about 4:00 PM on Spooner
Road in South
Frontenac Township.
The incident occurred after a six-year old boy exited a Laidlaw School
bus and fell beneath the rear wheels. The boy was taken to Kingston
General Hospital
by Ambulance where he is being treated for serious injuries.
Frontenac OPP were assisted at
the scene by OPP Technical Traffic Collisions Investigators and Traffic Reconstructionists as well as members of the Kingston
Police, South Frontenac Fire and Rescue, Frontenac Emergency Medical Services, the Ministry of
Transportation and the Limestone District School Board.
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Contacts:
Jane Douglas
Limestone District
School Board
613-544-6925 x 311
or
Const. Natalie McDowell
Frontenac OPP
Pager: 1-888-236-7747
FROM: Frontenac OPP RELEASE DATE: May 13,
2008
ONTARIO
PROVINCIAL POLICE TAKING PART
IN ANNUAL NATIONAL ROAD
SAFETY WEEK CAMPAIGN
All 165 Ontario
Provincial Police detachments, including Frontenac
Detachment are taking part in the annual Canada Road
Safety Week campaign aimed at making our roads the safest in the world.
This year’s campaign runs from 12:01 a.m. on May 13 to 11:59
p.m. on May 19.
“The goal of Canada Road
Safety Week is to increase public compliance with safe driving measures and,
ultimately, to save lives,” OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino
said. “We will be targeting aggressive drivers, those who drink and
drive and those who don’t buckle up. We will also be watching for
motorists who don’t slow down and, where possible, move over when
passing an emergency vehicle parked on the shoulder of the road with its
emergency lights flashing.”
Last year in Ontario,
451 people were killed in crashes on roads patrolled by the OPP. Transport Canada
statistics for 2006, the last full year available, indicate that 2,889 people
were killed in collisions across the country and another 15,281 were
seriously injured.
To date in 2008, there have been 102 people killed on
O.P.P. patrolled Roadways. Out of
those killed in 2008, 31 people died in speed related collisions, 27 people
died in collisions where seat belts/child restraints were not used and 15
people died in alcohol related collisions.
“For many
years, the OPP, along with police agencies across the country, have
collaborated to raise the awareness regarding issues of public safety on our
roads,” We also use this
campaign to demonstrate our commitment to public safety and community
wellness.
Canada Road Safety Week supports Canada’s Road
Safety Vision 2010, a plan to make Canada’s
roads the safest in the world by 2010.
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Contact:
Cst. Natalie McDowell
Frontenac OPP
613-372-1932
www.opp.ca
FROM: Frontenac Detachment RELEASE:
09 May 2008
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PUBLICATION LE:
Impaired Driver Crashes Vehicle on Highway 401
Members of Frontenac Ontario
Provincial Police with the assistance of Kingston
City Police have charged a 32
year old Elizabethtown man with
impaired driving and driving over the legal limit. The male was driving a Ford Taurus when he
lost control and struck the center concrete median barrier on Highway 401 at Joyceville Road Thursday
night, May 8th 2008
at 8:48pm. The vehicle was demolished, the driver
sustained non life threatening injuries and was transported to Kingston
General Hospital. No other vehicles were involved in the
collision.
He will appear later this month in Kingston
Court to answer to his criminal charges.
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Contact: Natalie McDowell
Provincial Constable
Frontenac Detachment
Office: 613-372-1932
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