News release
PEI RCMP Remind Islanders to Drive Safe during Canada Road Safety Week
May 14, 2025
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Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
From: Prince Edward Island RCMP
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Canada Road Safety Week is an annual awareness campaign with a focus on the best practices that can help make Canada’s roads even safer. It is designed to focus on the elimination of impaired driving, distracted driving, aggressive driving and driving without a seatbelt.
RCMP officers across the Island are working hard to enforce highway traffic laws and ensure optimal safety on the road, but every Islander shares the responsibility to keep one another safe on the road. The expectation of arriving safely from a daily commute, a quick errand or a weekend long trip could shatter when one careless decision turns a routine trip into a life-altering tragedy. That’s why it is important to obey road safety rules to avoid preventable collisions.
Whether you’re behind the wheels, on a motorcycle, riding a bike, or crossing the road, let’s all commit to making safer choices on the road, not just this week, but every time we travel.
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“Every crash we attend aren’t just numbers; they are lives now changed. We can’t control every single situation on the road, but we can control our individual choices. We encourage Islanders to adopt safe driving practices on the roads. Put on your seatbelts, put the phone away, drive sober, slow down and stay alert. You are not just safeguarding yourself and your passengers but everyone else on the road.”
Sgt. Lisa Jones, PEI RCMP Traffic Services