After a busy long weekend of catching excessive speeders, West Vancouver police say they are doing brisk business impounding vehicles in 2018.
Among the highlights from the weekend: drivers of a 2013 Civic and a 2014 Scion caught doing 187 kilometres per hour on the Upper Levels Highway overnight Monday, and a Land Rover driver getting tagged at 110 km/h on Cypress Bowl Road earlier in the day.
So far, police have busted 46 people for excessive speeding and impounded their vehicles this year, more than double the number by this time last year, according to Const. Jeff Palmer, West Vancouver police spokesman.
Of the 46 impounds, 22 were on the highway, and 22 on Cypress Bowl Road.
The department has been shifting some of its priorities and there has been a net increase in the amount of enforcement, Palmer said.
“Staffing may be some of it but clearly at this point, there’s not a shortage of drivers making themselves subject to that kind of impound,” he said. “It’s definitely of concern that we’re having continued, really profoundly excessive speed rates.”
