A reminder of what you need to bring with you if you’re spending time doing outdoor sports.
Being prepared for various activities can be crucial, and often life saving.
The OPP are reminder people of things that are essential (and some legally needed) for doing outdoor activities this summer.
If you’re going to be venturing on the water, don’t forget a life jacket or personal floatation device. From 2012-2021 the provincial police have investigated 238 boating/paddling deaths, and in 86 per cent of those deaths the individual wasn’t wearing a life jacket.
Plans on doing some off-roading this summer? Don’t forget to protect your most important asset, your head. OPP report that 186 people were killed in off-roading incidents, and almost half of them weren’t wearing helmets.
Even when it comes to road trips, or trips just up the road, it’s always important to wear your seatbelt. In the past decade Ontario Provincial Police have logged 542 fatalities that can be attributed to not wearing a seatbelt.
The OPP will be out in full force over the course of the summer, patrolling and educating those along the 100,000 square km or waterways, over 130,000 km or pavement and across a vast network of trails.