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Lethbridge Police charge two for excessive speeding on Mayor Magrath

Lethbridge Police have charged two people after a pair of vehicles were caught driving at excessive seeds this weekend down Mayor Magrath Drive.

LPS had warned a few weeks back that speeding concerns had become a big issue lately.

On Friday night (May 22), officers pulled over a couple of vehicles clocked travelling at 107 km/h on Mayor Magrath.

The speed limit down that stretch of roadway is between 50 km/h and 60 km/h.

Police say they’ve heard citizens concerns about racing and stunting in recent weeks, especially on that heavily-used roadway and will continue to target unsafe drivers.

Both drivers involved in this incident were charged and police had their vehicles towed.

Concerns about speeding were brought up at the last Lethbridge Police Commission meeting in late April.

Chief Scott Woods told the Commission stunting and racing has becoming more of an issue since the COVID-9 pandemic began, noting officers have been issuing tickets, in some instances, for higher rates of speed.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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