A hefty speeding ticket and seven days without their Jeep was the punishment doled out to one speedy driver in the southeast late last week.
On Friday (May 5) a member of the Weyburn RCMP Combined Traffic Services Unit was conducting speed enforcement stop on Highway 39 between Yellow Grass and McTaggart shortly before 4 p.m. The officer was checking the speed of an oncoming vehicle when a second vehicle, a 4 door Jeep Wrangler, entered the radar beam and showed a speed of 189 kilometres per hour.
Once the first vehicle was out of the radar beam, the officer continued to track the second vehicle which was visually observed to still be travelling well over the posted speed limit of 100 kilometres per hour. The vehicle speed was confirmed on radar at that time to be travelling at 168.
The RCMP officer stopped the vehicle and the driver was issued a ticket with a voluntary fine payment of $492. The vehicle was seized on the spot and impounded for seven days under the Traffic Safety Act for travelling more then 50 kilometres per hour over the posted speed limit.