HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1986-11-26, Page 20KITS TO BEAVERS
These youngsters took a step up during a ceremony on November 20 which saw them go
from Kits to Beavers. Those moving up and those assisting are (back, left), Terry
Strickland, Karen Tyndall, Mark Walker, Cheryl Grigg, Brenda Hart. (Middle, left),
Bryan Thomas, Gerry Klomps, Justin Noble, Kevin Ball, Andrew Burdge, Andy
Cantelon. (Front, left), Jay McFarlan, Ricky Glenn, Ryan, Scott and Tim Cantelon.
(Anne Narejko photo)
Impairment major cause of snow
vehicle fatalities for 1985 winter season
ORONTO — About 70 percent of all
vers involved in fatal motorized snow
vehicle accidents last year were impaired,
Ontario's Minister of Transportation and
Communications Ed Fulton announced
recently.
"Of the 17 fatalities, 12 of the snow vehicle
drivers were described as `ability impaired'
or 'had been drinking,' Fulton. says,
"The statistics prove that, whether it be
an automobile or a snowmobile, driving
while impaired kills," Fulton addeds. "The
time has come for all of us to take the poten-
tial for casualty much more seriously."
During the period between November,
1985 and April, 1986, there were a total of 558
on and off-highway accidents involving
snow vehicles. 57
"These figures reflect a 15 percent in- cent tof e 282 on -highway eeknds and 70 percent. per-
crease
crease over last year's 487, accidents, place
FuItfyS'. "Tt ik linpera(t1Ve•thart.'we'Work cant... ccured glaceoat
or snowst 77, Rer-
towards lowering the figures next year. There wereua totalicy of 3 packed snow vehicle
"It is also important we realize motorized
snow vehicles are not toys. Their operation drivers involved in on -highway accidents.
is no less important and dangerous than the Of those, five were under the age of 12, even
operation of automobiles and the regula-
tions governing their operation must be
strictly adhered to at all times," Fulton
says.
Of the 558 accidents, 282 were on -highway
and 276 were off-highway. The number of
fatal accidents remained the same at 16
with 17 fatalities. Personal injury accidents
increased 24 percent from 316 to 391 and per-
sons injured increased 22 percent from 396
to 485.
During the 1985/86 season, three drivers
and one passenger were killed when they
drove their vehicles into open water or
broke through thin ice. The previous year
only two drivers and one passenger drowned
the same way.
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though . in Ontario, the law requires a
driver, to be 16 years of age to operate a
snow vehicle near a highway.
And, 17 percent of the snow vehicle
drivers involved in on -highway accidents
did not hcld a valid driver's licence or a
motorized snow vehicle operator's licence.
Of those drivers, 18 were under the age of 16
and five were under the age of five.
Of the 276 off-highway accidents, there
were 10 fatal accidents, 185 personal injury
accidents and 81 property damage -only ac-
cidents. Eleven people were killed and 230
people were injured.
A total of 52 percent of the accidents, in-
cluding three fatalities occured on private
property, in fields or parking lots and six of
the fatal accidents occurred on lakes or
rivers. Of the off-highway accidents, 66 per-
cent took place during weekends. .
There WOise* . ;,Ilow Ve
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volved in off-highway accidentsn22 percent
were under the age of 20; 10 percent were
under 16 and five drivers were under the age
of 12.
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