With more people staying at and working from home during the pandemic, there are fewer drivers on B.C. roads. While less traffic means fewer crashes, it also appears some speed demons are taking advantage of the open highways. “In the last few weeks to a month, we have seen an increase in excessive speeding,” Const.
Markus Anastasiades of the Saanich Police Department told Global News. Saanich police traffic and patrol officers impounded a total of 16 vehicles for excessive speeding in the last three weeks of March and first week of April – compared to just two impounds during the same 30 day period in February and March.