Since this article was published by the Cowichan Valley Citizen and reprinted in many other Black Press newspapers in BC, West Coast Driver Training has received messages of support from all over the province. We thanks all those who have called us to express their support for the position we are taking on the use of dash cameras in our cars.
West Coast Driver Training uses Garmin 56 dash cams (photo: West Coast Driver Training)
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Over the last several months West Coast Driver Training has experienced a number of incidents of dangerous driving by other drivers around our teaching cars during lessons, several incidents of pedestrians running out into the road in front of our cars during lessons and several Road Rage incidents directed towards our clients during lessons.
We experienced another Road rage incident today from another driver who was apparently upset about one of our Class 7 clients doing the legally required 30 kph through a clearly marked 30 kph school zone in Duncan.
School Zone sign (Advisory) with regulatory sign attached for posted 30 km/h speed limit. Note that this sign contains hours the School Zones is in effect, in this case 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on School Days (photo by WestCoastDriverTraining.com)
As in previous Road Road incidents we contacted the RCMP to report the incident and the first question the RCMP asked us was whether we had dash camera video of the incident. Unfortunately we did not.
West Coast Driver Training uses Garmin 56 dash cameras (photo: West Coast Driver Training)
In light of these incidents and for the protection of our clients, Instructors and vehicles, West Coast Driver Training will have operating outward facing dash cameras installed, front and rear, in our training vehicles during all future driving lessons. These cameras record both video and audio.
