WELLINGTON COUNTY – Drivers are being reminded to slow down and buckle up after officers laid dozens of charges over the Easter long weekend
Wellington County OPP laid 82 speeding charges, 75 seatbelt charges, 4 distracted driving charges, and 3 impaired driving charges over the Easter long weekend.
Across OPP West Region’s 13 detachments, hundreds of charges were issued during the annual Easter traffic safety campaign from April 3rd to 6th.
This included 168 charges under Ontario’s seatbelt law, compared to a five-year high of 338 seatbelt-related charges during the same campaign in 2025.
OPP say seatbelt non-compliance remains a serious concern: last year, failure to wear a seatbelt caused or contributed to 41 deaths on OPP-patrolled roads.
So far in 2026, four traffic fatalities in the West Region have been linked to not wearing a seatbelt.
Along with aggressive driving, impaired driving, distracted driving, and driver fatigue, OPP say failure to wear a seatbelt is one of the leading contributing factors to death, injury, and property damage on the province’s roads and highways.
