{"id":547037,"date":"2026-03-19T15:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547037\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T15:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:50:50","slug":"opp-charge-truck-driver-with-distracted-driving-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547037\/","title":{"rendered":"OPP charge truck driver with distracted driving in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Provincial Police officers in Ottawa stopped a transport truck driver on Highway 417 near Parkdale Avenue on March 18, shortly before 4 p.m., for distracted driving.<\/p>\n<p>The driver faces a $615 fine, three demerit points, and a three-day licence suspension.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OPP_ER\/status\/2034364318242717822?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">social media post<\/a>, OPP said distracted driving remains the leading cause of serious and fatal collisions in Ontario, ahead of impaired driving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.trucknews.com\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cropped-distracted-truck-driver.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cropped-distracted-truck-driver-1024x735.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of a truck stopped by police\" class=\"wp-image-1003211388\"  \/><\/a>(Photo: OPP)<\/p>\n<p>                <img alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cropped-TT.com-Profile-400x400-White-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>trucknews.com is the trucking industry&#8217;s leading information source, delivering vital insights to fleet executives, operations teams, maintenance personnel, owner-operators, and more. Readers turn to our experienced journalists for award-winning trucking industry news, trends, technical advances, equipment maintenance techniques, and business practices alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario Provincial Police officers in Ottawa stopped a transport truck driver on Highway 417 near Parkdale Avenue on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-547037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}