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As a leader in road safety, Manitoba Public Insurance is committed to educating teen drivers and helping them stay safe. National Teen Driver Safety Week is a good time for all teen drivers in the province to evaluate their driving behaviours and work on reducing teen driver involvement in collisions.

Changes under The Highway Traffic Act and the Drivers and Vehicles Act that come into force Nov. 1 will allow for short-term roadside licence suspensions for using a cellphone or other hand-operated electronic devices while driving.

Manitoba Public Insurance reported net income of $72.8 million for the first six months of its fiscal year ending August 31, 2018 – an increase of $30.5 million over the same time period last year.

Manitoba Public Insurance has announced that since its introduction four years ago, more than 100,000 low-interest loans have been processed under the province’s Low-Interest Winter Tire Program.

Manitobans need to be less accepting towards road fatalities and more committed to driving motor vehicle-related deaths down to zero, says Manitoba Public Insurance.

With Manitoba students now settled back into their school routines, Manitoba Public Insurance and Manitoba’s police agencies are sending a reminder to all drivers to stay vigilant in watching for children and driving with caution, particularly in school zones.

Large tractors – combines – cultivators. Chances are that motorists traveling in rural Manitoba this time of the year will encounter agricultural machinery as producers are hard at work taking crops off their fields.

On average, more than 800 collisions are reported on public roadways over the four-day September long weekend, according to Manitoba Public Insurance data.

Road safety has been dramatically enhanced on many Manitoba gravel roads, thanks to a highly successful, on-going RCMP enforcement campaign funded in part by Manitoba Public Insurance.

Auto insurance fraud has a financial cost for all Manitoba Public Insurance ratepayers, which is why the province’s public auto insurer is putting out the call to Manitobans to report suspected fraudsters.