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Bugs blamed for lead foot that netted driver $822 fine

Manitoba RCMP took to social media with their tongues placed firmly in their cheeks to remind drivers to “top up your washer fluid, the bugs are bad!

RCMP say a driver is blaming a dirty windshield for travelling nearly 60 kilometres over the speed limit near Eriksdale.

Speeding driver blames bugs (RCMP)

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Police say the 26-year-old driver was going 129 km/h in a 70 km/h zone on Highway 6.

When officers pulled the driver over he told them he didn’t see the speed limit sign because “his windshield was dirty with bugs and stuff.”

The driver was fined $822. The cost of windshield washing fluid about $3.

© News4.ca 2020

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