PARRY SOUND – The start of May proved dangerous for animals.
The West Parry Sound OPP attended several accidents involving wildlife recently, as well as theft from a vehicle, and conducted a RIDE check, along with answering more than 100 other calls.
Moose
On May 5, at 7:43 a.m. a West Parry Sound OPP officer was called about a car-versus-moose collision.
The collision happened on Highway 518 near Make Lake Estates Road. The driver wasn’t injured.
The moose ran into the woods after the accident.
Bear
A bear was hit on Highway 400 at the Highway 141 exit by a car. Police were called about the collision at 2:35 p.m. on May 5.
The driver wasn’t injured. The bear ran into the bush after the accident.
Deer killed
On May 6, two adult deer were killed in an accident on Parry Sound Drive at Nobel Road that damaged three separate vehicles. At 9:04 p.m. an eastbound Honda Civic struck a deer.
Then, a Dodge Durango, following it, struck a second deer that went flying into the hood of a westbound Cavalier. The drivers weren’t injured.
Wrong-way van
A person driving the wrong way on Highway 400 on May 6 had many people calling into the police station.
The calls started at 2:39 p.m. about a late model Caravan on Highway 400 driving north in the fast lane of the southbound lanes.
Callers placed the vehicle driving along the four-kilometre stretch between the Highway 518 and the Bowes Street interchange, but police never located it.
RIDE
During a RIDE program on the night of May 6, police checked 213 vehicles and laid one charge.
The RIDE was set up on the northbound Highway 400 off ramp off Seguin Trail Road. When police stopped one vehicle at 9 p.m., they spotted a brown bottle between the passenger’s feet.
Police charged a 53-year-old Scarborough man with having open alcohol in a vehicle.
Whitestone
On May 5, police pulled over a speeding vehicle on Highway 124 in Whitestone doing 106 km/hr in an 80 km/hr zone.
Police charged a 37-year-old Whitestone man with speeding and, because the vehicle’s plates were still registered to the previous owner, the vehicle was towed.
Narcotics stolen
OxyContin, Tylenol 3, and a camera were in an overnight bag stolen from a vehicle with an open window in the Georgian Bay Information Centre parking lot on May 8 at 3 p.m.
“The OPP reminds the public of the lock-it-or-lose-it campaign and the OPP will be conducting a random lock-it-or-lose-it program (this week),” said Community Services Officer Charles Ostrom.