SUNDRE – While there are some motorists who drive at excessive speeds in Sundre, the local RCMP detachment’s commander says aggressive driving is the bigger issue his members have observed.
The subject was brought up during a recent regular council meeting when Sgt. Trent Sperlie presented his department’s third quarter statistics from 2023.
Following the sergeant’s presentation, mayor Richard Warnock wrapped up council’s question period by asking if speeding tickets were largely issued to motorists travelling on numbered highways.
The sergeant said the majority of speeding violations are indeed from numbered highways, but added some are within the town’s boundaries.
“We have worked certain areas that have been identified as potential hotspots by people within Sundre,” said Sperlie.
But what the local members have found in some of those cases, he said, is that when an officer sets up of a speed check at a location that a caller has drawn attention to, motorists are for the most part not actually speeding excessively.
“I think what gets lost in the translation is a lot of people what they’re actually reporting, is aggressive driving,” he said.
“And there’s definitely speeding in Sundre, we know that. But I think one of the bigger problems is the aggressive driving.”
