Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Victim Positively Identified

(Wawa, Ontario) Police have positively identified the body recovered from Catfish Creek, north of Wawa on Saturday, April 19th. The victim has been identified as STEPHANE PLAMONDON, 32 years of age, from Edmonton, Alberta. He has also been positively linked to the 2003 Chevrolet Impala that was located nearby on the side of Highway 17. It is still unknown what Plamondon was doing in the area or which direction he was traveling in. Cause of death is being withheld until further forensic tests have been conducted on biological samples and on the contents of the car. Superior East OPP, with the assistance of the Northeast Region Crime Unit and Forensic Identification Unit, continue their investigation to ascertain the events leading up to Mr. Plamondon’s death. Notification of next of kin was done with family in Montreal.

Anyone with information that may assist police are asked to call the Superior East OPP Detachment at 1-888310-1122

12 More Seatbelt Charges Laid Over the Weekend

(Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Provincial Police charged seven drivers and four passengers over the past weekend for not buckling up on area roadways.

Motor vehicle collisions are the leading cause of injury-related deaths among children and youth. Despite this, approximately 34 per cent of children between the ages of four and eight are properly secured in a booster or child car seat; 66 per cent are using seatbelts.

Seatbelts are designed to protect adults. Booster seats raise a child up so that the adult seatbelt works more effectively, providing 60 per cent more protection than seatbelts alone.

Every occupant in a motor vehicle must be properly secured in a seatbelt or an appropriate child car seat.

Most of us wear our seatbelts………..let’s make it all of us!