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in si de ha lto n. co m O ak vi lle B ea ve r | T hu rs da y, O ct ob er 18 ,2 01 8 | 6 Discover Your Choices Retirement Living At Its Best380 Sherin Drive, Oakville, Ontario(905) 847-1413 www.vistamere.ca Thanks Oakville for once again voting us the Best Retirement Residence in Oakville Call today for your personal tour. We'd love to have you join us! Thanksgiving weekend traffic-related charges* 6,934 The OPP laid charges between Oct. 5 and 8 Not wearing seatbelts charges Stunt driving charges105 406 Speeding charges: 5,295 Impaired Driving/ Over 80 mgs. of Alcohol charges76 Distracted Driving charges 149 *A breakdown of some of the infractions seen on the province's roads over Thanksgiving weekend. The Ontario Provincial Police say eight people died on the province's highways over Thanksgiving week- end, in four separate car crashes near Port Perry, Guelph, Elgin County and Brant County. Two of the collisions - those in Port Perry and Guelph - involved three fa- talities each, the OPP said in a press release issued Oct. 11. Calling it "one of the deadliest Thanksgiving weekends in recent histo- ry," police said they also laid 6,934 charges between Oct. 5 and Oct. 8 as part of a national initiative called Operation Impact. "Operation Impact ... targeted aggressive, inat- tentive and alcohol-/drug- impaired drivers as well as unbuckled occupants," said police, noting "the ma- jority of the charges were issued to drivers who were speeding." The blitz came just as the provincial police were wrapping up their fall seat- belt campaign, a 10-day ini- tiative that netted 2,475 seatbelt charges during that time. EIGHT DIE ON ONTARIO ROADS THANKSGIVING WEEKEND SAIRA PEESKER speesker@metroland.com NEWS PROVINCIAL POLICE LAID 6,934 CHARGES, MOSTLY FOR SPEEDING, BETWEEN OCT. 5 AND OCT. 8. Rick Madonik/Toronto Star