road safety

The Saskatchewan Highway Patrol has completed Operation Safe Driver Week, focusing on heightened traffic enforcement and road safety. Throughout the week, SHP members were in contact with 344 drivers, issuing 235 tickets for various infractions. These included speeding, unregistered vehicles, seatbelt violations, failure to stop at stop signs, driving suspensions, overweight commercial vehicles, and cargo […]

A section of Saskatchewan Drive between Angus and Robinson was closed for a couple of hours last night, as the Regina Police Service investigated a pedestrian being hit by a vehicle. This happened just after 7 last night. Police say the pedestrian was taken to hospital in stable condition, but with serious injuries. Police have […]

A train blocking streets in Regina has been a problem for decades, especially in places like Ring Road, where there isn’t an overpass or underpass to keep traffic moving. Last Friday a Canadian National Train leaving the city had what the rail company calls an “operational stop”. The long train blocked major roads like Albert […]

As harvest gets underway, SGI is reminding you to watch out for slow farm vehicles on grid roads, and the occassional highway. SGI’s Tyler McMurchy says in the past five years there has been 86 crashes involving farm equipment on Saskatchewan roads, resulting in 41 people being hurt, and seven people being killed. McMurchy says […]