TORONTO - It's been a year since Ontario's controversial street racing law took effect and the number of daily busts hasn't dropped as substantially as authorities predicted.
The law that lets police seize vehicles from drivers caught going 50 kilometres an hour over the speed limit marks its one-year anniversary Tuesday.
With the cost of towing and impounding and a fine of up to $10,000 at play, police thought drivers would get the message pretty fast. But that really hasn't happened.
The average number of busts at the outset was almost 40 daily.
But the current trend of about 23 drivers ticketed a day suggests more than 10,000 will be nabbed by the end of the calendar year.
As of late last week, almost 8,500 drivers have been charged under the provincial street racing law.
But provincial police Commissioner Julian Fantino says he still considers the law a success.
Fantino says he's also satisfied with the success rate of the cases in the courts, even though only 40 per cent have resulted in a conviction under the legislation.
