Calgary police cracking down on excessive speeding, thousands of tickets issued - BERITAJA

With the presence of outpouring weather, Calgary constabulary opportunity excessive speeding is connected the rise.

“We are seeing speeds connected Stoney Trail of 175, 180 km/h connected a 100 km/h road,” said Staff Sgt. Andy Woodward of the Calgary constabulary postulation unit, who says Stoney Trail is 1 of the speeding basking spots.

“We person put our resources towards Stoney way and it’s paying dividends,” said Woodward.

A speedy look astatine the Calgary Police Service’s societal media account reveals dozens of examples of tickets they’ve handed retired successful caller weeks for excessive speeds: 166 km/h successful a 80 km/h velocity zone, 131 km/h successful a 6 km/h zone, 137 km/h successful an 80 km/hrconstruction area — successful 1 example, a driver was issued $1,200 successful tickets.

In summation to a hefty fine, anyone caught speeding astatine much than 50 km/h supra the posted limit is fixed a mandatory tribunal summons pinch the imaginable of moreover bigger fines and a licence suspension.

In the first 10 weeks of 2026, Calgary handed retired 10,000 tickets for speeding.

On Saturday, April 18, Calgary postulation officers targeted Stoney Trail and Bow Trail S.W. and successful conscionable 3 hours they issued complete 40 tribunal summons and stopped one  driver doing 147 km/h.

After 2025, erstwhile location was a grounds precocious of 38 group killed connected Calgary roads, Hannah Hamilton, programme head of Safe Communities for the Alberta Motor Association, calls the summation successful excessive speeding “a very concerning trend.”

“We cognize based connected provincial and national information that June, July and August are the months wherever we spot the highest number of either injuries aliases fatalities related to excessive speeding because the upwind is nicer, we’re not arsenic worried about roadworthy conditions, truthful group consciousness much comfortable speeding,” Hamilton said.

“What we spot is that group usually velocity connected roads that they’re about acquainted with. So they’re like, oh, I ever thrust this route, I cognize what the signs are, I cognize wherever I’m going, and they benignant of get into a spot of an autopilot, and they’re much apt to veer aliases break distant from the rules of the roadworthy because they consciousness comfortable.

“But the truth is that if you spell moreover 10 km complete the posted velocity limit, it doubles your consequence of crash, and 20 km complete the velocity limit, that becomes six times much likely.  I deliberation that it’s really important that group understand that 1 successful 4 crashes successful Alberta involves speeding.”

The crashes could besides beryllium traumatizing for first responders.

“Any of the tragedies that we travel crossed are tough,” said acting battalion main Adam Boss of the Calgary Fire Department. “Coming connected to a segment wherever there’s a fatality affects our members, affects the public, affects family members. High-speed incidents are each excessively common. They do hap rather often successful the springtime.”

“There’s thing to pinpoint to opportunity these younger drivers,” said Woodward. “We’ve had drivers successful their 50s and 60s and we’ve had drivers successful their 20s.”

But what Woodward says they person successful communal is they deliberation “they’ll ne'er get into a collision aliases they’ll get caught by the police.”

“But we’ve seen it connected societal media now,” added Woodward. “We are collecting these people.”