A Plate Reader Found Lapsed Insurance, The Cop Found 11 People Crammed In His Pathfinder

A man in Canada is looking at close to a dozen charges after police pulled over his overloaded SUV and counted eight children inside, none of them properly secured or belted in. The stop happened during what should have been a routine check.

Ontario Provincial Police were working St. David Street North in Fergus last week when their Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system flagged the driver of a Nissan Pathfinder as possibly uninsured. That kind of hit normally ends at the driver’s window with a citation. This one did not, because of what the officers could see through the Pathfinder’s windows once they got close.

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Upon approaching the Nissan, the officers discovered the SUV was carrying 11 people. Eight were children, and none of them were belted in. How that many kids fit into a Nissan rated for seven or eight passengers depending on configuration is anyone’s guess, but police appear to have decided the driver was worth making an example of.

The 31-year-old driver has been slapped with 10 charges by police. These include careless driving, driving while a child passenger was not properly secured, five counts of driving while a passenger under the age of 16 failed to properly wear a seat belt, and two counts of driving while a passenger under the age of 16 failed to occupy a position with a seat belt.

In addition, the driver has been charged with operating a motor vehicle without insurance, knowingly giving a false insurance card, failure to surrender insurance, failure to notify a change of address, failure to surrender a motor vehicle permit, and driving a motor vehicle with no currently validated permit.

It’s understood that the driver will have to appear in the provincial offenses court at a later date to face the charges.