Traffic blitz yields 68 tickets, three 'unsafe' commercial vehicles taken off the road

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One of three commercial vehicles deemed \u0022unsafe\u0022 and taken off the road in an Ottawa police and Ministry of Transportation blitz Tuesday was an accident waiting to happen.

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“One truck had only three of six nuts attached to its wheels,” Staff-Sgt. Denis Hull of the traffic and escort unit said in a media release from the Ottawa Police Service on Friday.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter.

Meanwhile, traffic officers equipped with automatic licence plate reader technology were on Bank Street and on Preston Street on Tuesday. They wrote 68 tickets, including four for stunt driving, three for speeding, 24 for expired licence plates, six for driving without a licence and four for distracted driving.

Getting “high-risk and problematic drivers” off city streets makes other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians safer, Hull said.

 

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