This year to date, over 80 drivers charged with stunt driving.

Bruce Peninsula Ontario Provincial Police are reporting a significant and troubling increase of drivers charged with stunt driving on Highway 6. In 2017, the number of stunt drivers charged was half of this year's number of over 80 drivers.

As recent as Thursday, August 23, police charged 4 more drivers with stunt driving - speeding by 50 or more km/h 172(1) Highway Traffic Act (HTA). One of the vehicles stopped was a pick-up truck pulling a tent trailer traveling at more than twice the speed limit of 80 km/h. The driver's truck was impounded for 7 days and the driver lost his licence for 7 days. The family was left without a truck and their vacation was cut short due to the choice made by the vehicle driver.

Bruce Peninsula OPP has taken to social media, twitter, to get the message out that Highway 6 is not a race track. As well, a Highway 6 safety video has been completed and plays on the ferry, MS Chi-Cheemaun that travels between Tobermory and Manitoulin Island. It was completed with the assistance of a partnership with the Owen Sound Transportation Company and the widow of Chad Honneyman, Kim Honneyman. Chad died tragically in a collision on Highway 6 in 2017. Previews of the video can be viewed at "OPP West" on Twitter.

"The ongoing trend of drivers failing to obey the speed limit on the highway has to change. Bruce Peninsula OPP officers diligently continue to patrol the highway and enforce the speed limit and the Highway Traffic Act. We are asking the public to remain vigilant and report any excessive and aggressive driving. It is the responsibility of everyone driving on Hwy 6, that you operate your vehicle in a manner that allows everyone to get home safe at the end of the day," says Interim Detachment Commander - Staff Sergeant Paul Richardson.

source: media release, Bruce Peninsula OPP