Rail and road safety campaign kick off

Toronto Police Service News Release

Media advisory, Thursday, May 16, 2013, 10 a.m., Panorama Lounge, Union Station, 65 Front Street West, News conference, Police leaders, government, and corporate supporters kick off rail and road safety campaign

Thursday, May 16, 2013 - 5:00 AM
Corporate Communications:  416-808-7100

On Thursday, May 16, 2013, at 10 a.m., at the Panorama Lounge, Union Station, 65 Front Street West, Kevin Flynn, Parliamentary Assistant to Ontario’s Minister of Transportation, will join representatives of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police to kick off the 2013 Drive Safe! province-wide traffic safety campaign focusing on rail and road safety.

Chief Steve Tanner, President of the OACP, will join MPP Flynn along with Marc Laliberté, President and CEO of VIA Rail Canada, and Acting Superintendent Gord Jones, Toronto Police Service Traffic Services, representing the OACP Traffic Committee.

The Drive Safe! R.I.D.E. campaign will feature a new public-information booklet with information on rail and road safety as well as pedestrian safety, drinking and driving, traffic-collision reporting, protecting consumers from fraud when purchasing a vehicle, and Ontario's“"pullover" laws. All Ontario municipal police services and OPP detachments will work together to help promote traffic safety across Ontario.

For further information, please contact Joe Couto, Director of Government Relations and Communications, Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police, at 416-919-9798 , media@oacp.ca, or via Twitter at @OACPOfficial.

Parking: Media are advised to consider parking on Bremner Boulevard (just south of Union Station) due to construction in front of Union Station. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Constable Wendy Drummond, Corporate Communications, for Acting Superintendent Gord Jones, Traffic Services

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