Drivers are being warned improper disposal of cigarette butts out the vehicle window will be fined if caught. Credit: shutterstock

Police on the lookout for cigarette-tossing drivers

PENTICTON – Motorists in the South Okanagan beware – you could receive a ticket for something other than a driving infraction while on the road during these hot summer days.

Penticton RCMP are on the watch for motorists who throw cigarette butts out the window as the fire danger increases.

“We’ve always ticketed drivers for throwing butts out the window, we’ve been doing it all along. If we don’t see them, we want the person who does to call us, and hopefully provide us with a license number,” RCMP spokesperson Don Wrigglesworth says, adding the same thing applies to illegal campfires.

Local RCMP have fielded one complaint this year about carelessly tossed cigarettes.

Fines start at $82 but can go up significantly under the Motor Vehicle and Wildfire Acts.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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2 responses

  1. Kathy Beagle

    driving behind car passenger tosses cig butt out window main street penticton. silver car license plate #153 SNNquebecplate

  2. Suzanne Bergeron

    Let’s all get together and report these assholes!

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Steve Arstad

I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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