The OPP plan to snag as many drivers as they can who are still texting or holding their phones while driving.
The week-long distracted driving campaign begins Monday across the province.
To kick start the campaign, police are asking motorists to break their bad habit of using handheld devices while driving and make a lifelong vow to keep their phones out of reach.
"Drivers need to remember that the real danger to the motoring public lies in the distraction, not the device," says Chief Superintendent Don Bell, commander of the OPP Highway Safety Division. "In 2012, 83 people were killed in motor vehicle collisions within OPP jurisdiction in which distracted driving was a causal factor and that surpassed our impaired driving fatalities in 2012.”
OPP say it is not just devices that cause accidents. Distracted driving refers to all forms of inattentive driving, such as eating and drinking, personal grooming and tending to children in the backseat.
Police are asking Ontarians to share their stories on Facebook about the dangerous driver behaviour or near-misses they have observed from motorists driving distracted.
