West Kelowna RCMP checked more than 200 vehicles travelling west on the Okanagan Connector last week, finding many of them unfit for the mountain roads.

Local Mounties teamed up with officers from Commercial Vehicle Enhanced Safety Enforcement, spending Feb. 10 inspecting vehicles near the Paradise Valley turnaround on Highway 97C.

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Twenty-one vehicles were also sent back into the valley for tire-related violations, such as worn-out or bald tires and lack of winter tires, a requirement for driving on the connector.

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