John van Dongen has resigned as B.C. solicitor general following revelations that he was suspended from driving for four months for excessive speeding, but he will continue to run as a B.C. Liberal candidate in the coming provincial election. "Over the course of the last year I have met with people who have lost family members because of speeding and other driving behaviour. I have let them down and I have let down my constituents, who depend on me to set the highest public example. For that I am deeply sorry," van Dongen said in a statement released Monday morning. News of the resignation comes in the middle of provincial election campaign, but van Dongen said he will continue to run as the B.C. Liberal Party candidate for Abbotsford South in the May 12 election. In an interview with CBC Radio on Friday afternoon, van Dongen said the prohibition was triggered by two cases of "excessive speeding" in the last 18 months on a Saanich highway in Victoria and on Highway 99.
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