SHARE STORY OPP Const. Mike Atkinson watches for speeding vehicles during traffic enforcement patrol in Windsor, Ontario November 14, 2017. Nick Brancaccio / Windsor Star
Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) and the RCMP are reporting a nearly 60-per-cent increase in the number of speed-related Serious Driving Offences in 2020 compared to the year prior.
And of the 522 tickets that were handed out over the year, more than half of them went to one demographic. Specifically one particularly meat-headed demographic that’s now being dubbed “super speeders”: young men under the age of 34.
(I can call them meatheads because I am one of them not one that got a ticket, but a male under 34.)
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Male drivers (aged 34 and under) account for more than half the speed-related, Serious Driving Offences recently issued, according to Manitoba Public Insurance and the RCMP.
A total of 522 speed-related Serious Driving Offences were forwarded to MPI from January to the end of December 2020. This is nearly a 60 per cent increase from the same time frame in 2019.
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Over 50 per cent of these âsuper speedersâ were caught on the following roadways: Highway 100/101 (Perimeter Hwy), Highway 16, Highway 1, Highway 6 and Highway 59, according to RCMP data.