by XPolice | Apr 17, 2018 | Barrie & Area, careless driving, News
The driver of a transport truck has been charged with careless driving following a crash that closed Highway 400 near Barrie yesterday morning. Speaking to CP24 on Monday morning, Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt said a transport truck was heading...
by XPolice | Apr 4, 2018 | Barrie & Area, News
A man who had been snowmobiling on the ice of Little Lake has been charged with impaired driving. Emergency crews were called to the lake on Friday night for a report of a snowmobile that went through the ice. The rider made it back to shore and was checked out by...
by XPolice | Mar 15, 2018 | Barrie & Area, News
An Angus man has been found not guilty for his part in a crash that killed Master Cpl. David Anderson. Members of the jury spent most of Monday and Tuesday deliberating the fate of Andrew Stewart, ultimately finding him not guilty of dangerous driving causing death....
by XPolice | Jan 22, 2018 | Barrie & Area, News
Tyson Lawlor, the man who was driving while impaired in a crash that killed his cousin, is headed to prison. A judged sentenced Lawlor to five years in prison on Monday. Lawlor was found guilty of impaired driving and criminal negligence causing death last year....
by XPolice | Dec 29, 2017 | Barrie & Area, News
In the ‘50s and ’60s, the Barrie Examiner ran a series of New Year’s ads featuring the Grim Reaper, pile-ups, and highway carnage “No Canadian can fail to know the peril of the modern highway,” Governor General Vincent Massey declared during the run-up to...
by XPolice | Apr 28, 2017 | Barrie & Area, News, Provincial
Speeders could soon be snapped near Ontario schools. A special Queen’s Park standing committee is discussing a proposed law called the Safer School Zones Act, or Bill 65, allowing municipalities to use photo radar – which local politicians have said would...
