May 2013 – Young Drivers

Throughout the month of May the Medicine Hat Police Service will be focusing on Young Drivers as part of the province wide Selected Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP). Vehicle crashes are the #1 killer of young people in Alberta. Age, inexperience, distraction and peer pressure are significant factors in vehicle-related injuries and death during the teen years. Crash rates for young drivers are highest when there are teen passengers in the vehicle and when driving at night. One in five new drivers is involved in a collision during their first year of driving.

Parents play a vital role in teaching their teens to drive. Parents of teen drivers should set a good example behind the wheel, and set specific rules for their teen driver and stick to them. Parents can also enroll their teen in driver education, and most importantly, help your teen practice driving.

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May 2013 – Focus on Street Cleanliness

The City of Medicine Hat has commenced the cleaning of streets and Municipal Bylaw Enforcement Section is assisting in this project by pro-actively enforcing street cleanliness legislations.  This campaign is crucial to make our community a clean and desirable place to visit and live.  In order to assist in this, there are several things we can do as a community to assist in getting the job done properly and keeping the streets, alleys and public property clean. 

The first is to remove our vehicles from the street when the street is posted for street sweeping.  Sweeping residential areas takes place Monday thru Friday from 7 AM to 8 PM.  Section 18.5 prohibits the parking a vehicle on a roadway where a movable sign has been placed for the purposes of street cleaning, snow removal or any other activity for which the sign has been placed there by the City of Medicine Hat.

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