Distracted Driving Tickets Soar, Save Lives

0:00Sanage police dropped 61 tickets for distracted driving last March, hitting drivers hard during distracted driving awareness month. They pulled this off with just seven quick enforcement blitzes each under an hour long. Those fines sting at $368 a pop, plus four penalty points that could tack on another $214 in charges. The real toll shows up in ICBC numbers, with an average of nine folks killed and 1027 injured yearly from these crashes on. Vancouver Island, alone. Drivers fiddling with handheld phones are 3.6 times more likely to wreck, and 40% of those smashes happen right at intersections. Bottom line, staying off that phone behind the wheel saves lives, so let's keep eyes on the road moving forward. That wraps Vancouver News today, brought to you with AI.