On July 18th at approximately 3:00pm the following individual was caught on camera in the process of stealing a bicycle from the bike racks outside of the Canadian Light Source.
If you have any information which can help identify this individual, or if you have any other information about incidents on campus, please contact us at 306-966-5555.
During the summer months, it’s very common to see pedestrians and cyclists throughout the campus, so drivers are reminded to keep wary of their speed (The speed limit on campus is 40km/h).
Throughout the province, police will be watching for drivers exceeding the speed limit.
Distracted driving, impaired driving and occupant restraints will also be a focus in July.
“Speed is a factor in more than a quarter of all traffic fatalities in Saskatchewan,” said Andrew Cartmell, President and CEO of SGI.
“During the summer months, with increased traffic on our roads and highways, speeding is simply not worth the risk.
Plan ahead. Build in more travel time. Slow down and obey posted speed limits to keep yourself and other road users safe.”
Each year, there are more than 2,500 speed-related collisions on Saskatchewan roads that claim 46 lives and injure more than 1,000 others.
Collisions due to unsafe speed are generally severe – about 29 per cent of excessive speeding-related collisions result in injury or death compared with only 16 per cent for non-speed related collisions.
For every 100 collisions due to unsafe speed, an average of 42 people are injured or killed.1
On June 27, a number of changes addressing speed took effect in the province, including:
· The speed threshold in the Safe Driver Recognition (SDR) program was lowered from 50 km/h over the posted speed limit down to 35 km/h over the posted speed limit. This offence results in four demerit points under the SDR program and Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) Improvement and Driver Improvement programs.
· A new offence for driving double or more the speed limit was introduced, resulting in four demerit points under the SDR program and GDL Improvement and Driver Improvement programs.
· Exceeding the speed limit by more than double the speed results in a seven-day vehicle seizure on the second or subsequent offence within one year.
· Exceeding the speed limit by more than 50 km/h results in a seven-day vehicle seizure on each offence.
· A contest of speed or race with other vehicles results in a 30-day vehicle seizure on each offence.
Footnotes
These statistics are based on the three-year average from 2010-2012.
Speed-related collisions include those involving both exceeding the posted speed limit and driving too fast for road conditions.