Thompson RCMP were busy penalizing traffic scofflaws April 24-25, giving out 50 tickets over those two days, the majority of them for speeding.
Six people were fined for driving unregistered vehicles on Friday and Saturday, including a woman with a suspended driver's licence and a woman without a driver's licence, as well as a man who was travelling at 145 kilometres per hour on Highway 6.
He wasn't the most egregious speeder RCMP stopped over the two days. That honour belonged to a 38-year-old Leaf Rapids man, currently prohibited from driving anywhere in Canada, stopped going 150 km/hr in a 90 km/hr zone on Highway 391 north of the city a little after 6 p.m. April 24. He was charged with operating a motor vehicle while prohibited and released to appear in court at a later date, while the truck he was driving was towed and impounded.
Three other drivers were stopped Friday and Saturday for travelling 50 km/hr faster than the speed limit, including a man and a woman both stopped while going 140 km/hr in a 90 km/hr zone on Highway 391 and a man going 123 km/hr in a 70 km/hr zone within Thompson. All received serious offence notices and will have their driver's licences reviewed.
Other tickets handed out April 24-25 included 27 more for speeding, three for driving without a licence, one each for unlawful consumption and unlawful transportation of cannabis in a vehicle, and four for disobeying traffic control devices.
Police also charged a 28-year-old woman with impaired driving after responding to a vehicle stuck in the mud near the Millennium Trail near the Miles Hart Bridge April 26. The driver failed a roadside screening device and later provided breath samples with more than 2.5 times the legal limit of blood-alcohol content for driving a motor vehicle.
