Snowmobile patrol officers from the Southern Georgian Bay OPP Detachment aided by the recent snowfall were out and very visible to riders on open North Simcoe area OFSC trails over the weekend, checking riders for signs of impairment and their sleds for required 2024 registration validation stickers & proof of insurance along with 2024 OFSC trail passes.
Officers were also having an ear for modified exhaust systems and an eye for sleds trespassing on closed trails or farmers planted fields as these two issues are well known to raise the ire of landowners and neighbours to busy trail routes.
As a result of the patrols over the Family Day weekend, officers checked over 88 sleds and riders resulting in 15 riders being educated and 10 riders being charged for a variety of offences involving modified exhaust systems, sled registration validation, OFSC trail passes, and speeding.
See the following social media link https://twitter.com/OPP_CR/status/1759303863964684504
Sadly officers, Simcoe County Paramedics and Georgian Bay Fire Services were tasked in the evening of February 16, 2024 to attend a two sled head on crash on Lost Channel above the Big Chute in Georgian Bay Township which claimed the life of a 50 year old male driver from Puslinch, Ontario.