Canada Cops Rack up Tickets with Motorcycle Cam Video
Two motorcyclists face thousands of dollars in fines after being stopped in Canada's capital region with video cameras that recorded their bad driving, police said Wednesday.
The pair of Ottawa motorcyclists, aged 26 and 29, "learned, at their expense, that speed and dangerous driving can be quite costly," police said on their Facebook page.
Police said they received a tip from another motorist about the pair's "illegal and dangerous passing" and arrested them as they passed a police station in Wakefield, Quebec, near Ottawa.
One of the motorcyclists "attempted to quickly conceal a video camera, but to no avail," said a statement. It was seized by the officers.
"With the assistance of the content of the recording, our officers were not only in a position to confirm eyewitness's accounts, but were also able to observe several dozen infractions committed on the same day," police said.
Each motorcyclist was issued 21 infractions for a total each of about $11,000 in fines.
The case is similar to two others since mid-August in which motorcyclists with a video camera were fined for bad driving in the Canadian capital region.
In the first, a camera seized by police had captured images of two drivers committing nearly a dozen highway safety violations, including zigzagging across roads and driving 160 kilometers (99.42 mi) per hour on a street with a posted speed limit of 50 kilometers (31.07 mi) per hour.
Source: Agence France Presse
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