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, 2007 • The Huron Expositor
Opinion
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sky will nuke
seceders think twice
With numbers of high speed traffic fatalities
and street racing incidents on the rise, the
province has been cracking down on those
with a need for speed.
The latest announcement regarding Ontario's
traffic plane came with a very large price tag,
not just for those caught traveling at exces-
sive speeds, but for the equipment that will
be used to catch the lead foot and reckless
drivers.
Illegal street racers are already facing huge
fines, licence suspension and in some cases
car crushing, but now speeders could be
slapped with fines as high as $10,000.
And now speeders don't just have to look
ahead for radar or behind them for a cruiser,
they will have to look to the skies. Backing up
the new get -tough approach will be a special
surveillance plane - the first for Ontario
police in decades - that one critic calls "photo
radar with wings".
Changes taking effect Sept. 30 mean lead -
footed drivers caught exceeding the speed
limit by 50 kilometres an hour will face a
minimum fine of $2,000, and as high as
$10,000.
The new minimum is four times higher than
the existing fines of $9.75 for each kilometre
over the limit - or $487.50, plus surcharges at
50 km/h over the posted limit.
For a second offence, a driver could have
their licence yanked for up to 10 years. Quite
a high price to pay for trying to get some-
where fast:
The province' also is giving the Ontario
Provincial Police $2 million to operate a plane
to watch from the skies for dangerous drivers,
while 55 officers will be assigned to catch
speeders on the ground.
About two-thirds of traffic -related deaths are
caused by aggressive driving, Statistics
Canada figures show. Last year, 444 people
died in Ontario because of preventable crash-
es.
Speeders and drivers who weave in and out
of traffic are among the most dangerous dri-
vers and are the ones most likely to cause a
serious and even fatal collision. Having an
eye in the sky will not prevent all of the
issues on our roads but hopefully make a dri-
ver think twice about their speed and actions.
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Summer has left the party
and so has my newspaper job
The summer has left the
party and my stint at the
Clinton News -Record and
the Seaforth Huron
Expositor has obligingly
followed.
For me, it's no more
home -cooked meals or
nine -to -five workdays. For
you, it's not having to tolerate me at your
kid's ball games or read my broken -English
reports. For me it's not living with family, it's
living with friends, the family you choose.
While going back to school is supposed to be
a break from work, I'm really just going back
to school to do more of what I've been doing
already this summer. But it still doesn't feel
that much like work having been the first job
I've had that didn't include manual, slave
labour.
Each year is the same. I get tired of school,
so work is my holiday, and then I'm tired of
work and school is my Carribean.
But this year, like I've said, I'm going back
to school to do more of what I've done this
summer and last school year before that.
I don't think I've ever done the same thing
for so long. I guess this will let me know if
journalism is really my thing or tell me if I
by Jordan Baker
should find a career more
honest and with a larger
financial benefit.
If I stray from journal-
ism though think I might
be letting my sister down,
as she is into public rela-
tions and jokingly wanting
to work in the same city as
I, so she can have an easy media contact.
Well she can't beat me up anymore so I'm
no longer afraid to make my own decisions.
If I didn't know whether I like journalism
before, I think I do now. I get to meet people
more interesting than I am.
That does nothing to help my self-esteem
but it crosses the days off the calendar.
Hopefully my experience this summer will
give me a leg -up on my journalism class-
mates, giving me a head so arrogant and
pompous I can go back to my stuck -in -the -
way -things -used -to -be -professors at school
and give them a rude awakening and a fresh
look at how things are really run nowadays.
Perhaps if I stick with it, I'll be back to
write another farewell column when I leave
once again
Ron & salve
1 I heard that
my new teacher this
year is really tough.
You had her last year.
Have you got any tips?
Yeah. Work hard.
Do your homework.
Pay attention in class.
by David Lacey
Stay in the back.
Keep a low profile.
Try not to be
noticed.
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