Despite a busy weekend on the roads, provincial police say the Civic Holiday long weekend had the lowest fatality rate in two decades.

There was one fatality on Ontario’s OPP patrolled roads and one in a marine incident.

According to OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis, that is the lowest number of fatalities in the OPP’s jurisdiction since 1995.

“I believe the public did an excellent job cooperating with our officers to keep the long weekend safe for everyone…I encourage drivers, boaters and trail users to keep this positive trend up so that we can have one of the lowest fatality rates on record for the entire year.”

Despite the good weekend though, OPP say it’s been a deadly first six months in 2013, with 141 deaths, 37 of those in the region that includes London and Windsor.

OPP were out in full force over the weekend enforcing the Move Over law and looking for aggressive, impaired and distracted drivers and those not wearing seatbelts.

Over the course of the three-day weekend police laid over 7,000 charges including:

  • 290 not obeying Move Over law
  • 6,052 speeding
  • 83 street racing
  • 375 seat belt charges
  • 96 driving while impaired
  • 233 distracted driving
  • 91 roadside licence suspensions for drivers with blood alcohol in warn range