Fake Front Plate, No Insurance: OPP Describe Highway 6 Traffic Stop
A G1 licence, a passenger, no accompanying driver and two plates that didn't match; though the OPP post is unclear where on Highway 6 it happened.
The Ontario Provincial Police say an officer stopped a vehicle on Highway 6 in Bruce County on Sunday afternoon and found a fake front licence plate, a rear plate that did not belong to the vehicle, no insurance and no vehicle permit.
The account comes from a post published by West Region OPP on Facebook on Monday morning. Police say the driver held a G1 licence, was carrying a passenger and had no qualified accompanying driver.
The vehicle was towed and the plates were seized, police say. A 36-year-old York resident was charged with what the post describes only as numerous offences and was given a court date.
The post does not list the charges, name the accused, give the court date, or say which court will hear the matter.
Under Ontario’s graduated licensing rules, a G1 driver must be accompanied by a fully licensed driver with at least four years of experience, and passengers are restricted. The OPP post does not say which specific provisions it alleges were breached.
Where it happened isn’t clear
The post places the stop on Highway 6 and tags #SouthBruce, but Highway 6 runs nearly the width of the province — from Port Dover in Norfolk County, where the officer is based, north through Hamilton and Guelph to Owen Sound and up the Bruce Peninsula to Tobermory.
It does not pass through the Municipality of South Bruce, where Highway 9 is the main provincial route. The stop may have happened either on the peninsula stretch of Highway 6, roughly 250 kilometres from the officer’s home detachment, or at the southern end of the same highway in Norfolk County.
What isn’t in question is the conduct described. Licence plates that belong to the vehicle, a valid permit, insurance and a qualified accompanying driver for a G1 licence holder are requirements on every road in Ontario, whichever end of Highway 6 this was.
None of the allegations have been tested in court.
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