BC Highway Patrol set a new long-weekend record for excessive speed impoundments on the Sea to Sky Highway, pulling 66 vehicles off the road between Lions Bay and Mt. Currie from May 15 to 18.
The Squamish-based unit also issued 212 violation tickets over the four-day Victoria Day weekend as part of the month-long High Risk Driving Campaign. Sunday, May 17, was the busiest day, with 33 vehicles impounded.
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The previous long-weekend record on Highway 99 was 60 impoundments over the Labour Day weekend in 2025.
Cpl. Michael McLaughlin said officers at one point had four Porsches and two motorcycles lined up waiting for tow trucks. He said some drivers were caught travelling more than 80 km/h over the posted limit despite highway signs warning of police ahead.
“That sort of excessive speeding is exactly what we commonly see at fatal highway collisions, and it’s not acceptable,” McLaughlin said.
He said the unit would continue targeting excessive speeders on the corridor.
Thank God, they finally are out there enforcing. Unfortunately this is not gonna solve the problem.
This is the kind of PB I’m all about. I’ve felt like I’m in a real life horror show game of Frogger driving this road with the speed demons.
Beep beep babyyyyyy
Excellent work, BC Highway Patrol!! Please keep it up.
As a person who loves to ride her motorcycle on the S2S, who sees people speeding excessively every time, I 100% support enforcing the speed limits!! Thank you!!
What we need is another road just for Whistler traffic and big vehicles going that way! Like above Britannia that was talked about before the latest update to Britannia! It should reduce congestion on the sts at least!
At some point of excess speed, don’t just impound, send the offending vehicle to the re-cycle yard for total compaction. Then maybe these overly privileged idiot might learn.