HALIFAX—When will people learn?

The RCMP in Nova Scotia have taken to social media to show the front windshields of two vehicles they say were stopped within 30 minutes of each other on Highway 4 outside of Sydney.

Both cars, said police, were pulled over on Tuesday morning, with the drivers each ticketed $180 for not cleaning off their front windshields of snow.

“Clean your windshield, folks!,” a RCMP social media post declared Wednesday morning, when pointing out the snow-filled windshields.

In an interview, RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Clarke noted there were full-size snow brushes and scrapers in each vehicle that apparently weren’t used.

Apparently many drivers don’t realize that having an obstructed windshield is an offence under the motor vehicle act, said Clarke, and so police are always looking for ways to get the message out.

“The best way to do that is to use another person’s experience,” she said, explaining RCMP’s decision to post the photos online.

“People love pictures and they love to see what police are seeing and that’s why we would use a tactic like that,” said Clarke.

While thankful no one was hurt, Halifax Regional Police ticketed a driver with a frosty windshield who struck a 74-year-old man earlier this month.

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The victim suffered non-life threatening injuries and was hit while working as a crossing guard and assisting several pedestrians to cross Radcliffe Dr. in Clayton Park.

In that case, the driver, a 24-year-old man from Halifax, was charged under the Motor Vehicle Act for failing to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk, and for driving while his view was obstructed.

With files from Taryn Grant

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