Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) has issued a warning that provincial police will be cracking down on suspended drivers and unregistered vehicles for the month of November.
The authorities will be using automated license plate readers to catch offending drivers. SGI has provided the funding to equip provincial police cars with the readers over the past few years.
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“People don’t get suspended without cause,” said Auto Fund executive vice-president Earl Cameron in a press release. “They may have their driving privileges revoked due to impaired driving or other dangerous driving behaviours.”
The police have added that drivers who get into accidents without insurance can hurt the province’s finances.
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“Obviously if I don’t have insurance and I [hit] somebody and it’s going to cost SGI hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay everything out, that money’s got to come from somewhere,” Regina Police Service traffic safety unit Const. Curtis Warnar said.
SGI additionally warned that uninsured and unregistered vehicles can be very costly for those directly involved.
“You could be potentially on the hook for thousands of dollars in costs resulting from that collision,” SGI spokesman Tyler McMurchy told
CBC.
CBC reported that there are more than 50,000 drivers in Saskatchewan that are suspended at any given time, quoting SGI data.
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