Text stops have been set up along the 401 to stop people from driving distracted.
WOODSTOCK - The OPP and Ministry of Transportation have teamed up to create text stops along the 400 series highways.
Police are encouraging drivers to pull over if you have to respond to that text message and they have set up text stops at four en routes on the 401 including the two in Woodstock. Sergeant Dave Rektor tells Heart that distracted driving is now the number one killer on our highways.
"Well since 2009 500 people have died on Ontario roads because of distracted driving, we can do enforcement but we all know enforcement is only one portion of it, you also have to educate the public and you have to provide alternatives, so now their are alternatives for people where they can safely pull over and use their cell phones."
Rektor says signs have been erected encouraging drivers to pull over and take advantage of the free WIFI at the text stops. The other en route text stops are in Cambridge, King City and Port Hope. Rektor notes the OPP will be out in full force this long weekend and one of the major things they will be targeting is distracted driving.

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