Police say that at at approximately 1:45 p.m., RCMP Southeast Traffic Services completed a roadside stop on a vehicle on a straight stretch of Hwy. 101 in Upper Sackville. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the RCMP officer was out of his vehicle, which had the emergency lights flashing, it was struck by a passing Honda Civic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”72″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”31″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The RCMP officer was nearly struck during the collision, and fortunately, was uninjured. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The driver of the Honda Civic, a 31-year-old Halifax man, was shaken up but did not suffer any injuries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The man was issued a summary offence ticket for Failing to Move Over, a fine over $350 for a first offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”6″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember, in Nova Scotia all drivers must:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Slow down to 60 km\/h or obey the speed limit when it\u2019s below 60 km\/h;<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022 Move over to an empty lane if you can do so safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Police officers, firefighters, paramedics, tow truck operators, and other emergency personal are at risk when stopped on the roadside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n File #: 22-125573<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”148″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”169″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”127″] [adrotate banner=”84″] UPPER SACKVILLE: An RCMP Southeast Traffic Services vehicle was struck during a roadside stop on Hwy. 101 in Upper Sackville on Oct. 11. Police say that at at approximately 1:45 p.m., RCMP Southeast Traffic Services completed a roadside stop on a vehicle on a straight stretch of Hwy. 101 in Upper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[4041,14,1441],"class_list":["post-31788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-move-over-law","tag-rcmp","tag-upper-sackville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/311930925_486521520186719_3588231351097907824_n-1024x481.jpg\")
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