Examples include using a cell phone, using your vehicle’s touch screen dashboard, eating or drinking, grooming, interacting with pets or adjusting the radio.
Government is upping the fines and penalties for distracted driving in this province. The maximum fine for driving without due care and attention is $1,300, while the maximum penalties for driving without due care and attention causing bodily harm or death is imprisonment for up to two years, suspension of a driver’s licence for five years and a $26,000 fine. Motorists must be completely attentive behind the wheel. The smallest distraction can have deadly consequences. Examples include using a cell phone, using your vehicle’s touch screen dashboard, eating or drinking, grooming, interacting with pets or adjusting the radio.
Port Saunders RCMP say the missing 58-year-old man has been located
Resource Enforcement officers looking for information about a fire in Trout River
Wild Cove opens for regular operations but crews continuing to smother the fire
Qalipu First Nation Chief and Council met in St. John's for the first time to include members in that area
Route 340 near Lewisporte is closed both ways due to a motor vehicle collision
