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.
A petition is going around Deer Lake against a proposed rowhouse development on Trailer Court Road
Westjet flights returned last night at the Deer Lake Regional Airport
RCMP looking for a red Rav4 stolen from the TCH near La Manche Siding this past weekend
Deer Lake RCMP looking for a missing man, 68-year-old Perry Green
Corner Brook RNC arrest an impaired driver who fled from police and struck three parked vehicles
