Durham Regional Police Service (DRPS) completed its sixth week of the Festive R.I.D.E program, stopping more than 2,400 vehicles and charging 11 drivers with drinking and driving offences.
Officers conducted R.I.D.E. checks in Ajax, Pickering, Whitby, Oshawa, Clarington, Scugog and Brock with the following totals: (2018 Festive R.I.D.E. stats from week six are in brackets)
2,471 (1720) Vehicles stopped by R.I.D.E.
101 (149) People given Roadside Breath Tests
8 (17) People received “3/7/30 Day Suspensions” for registering a “WARN”
0 (N/A) Mandatory Roadside breath Tests
0 (N/A) Person arrested for impaired as result of Mandatory Tests
0 (N/A) People received “3/7/30 Day Suspensions” as a result of Mandatory Tests
0 (N/A) People given “Approved Drug Screening Device” Tests
2 (5) Novice Driver received a “3 Day Licence Suspension”
11 (17) People were charged with Drinking and Driving Offences
11 (32) Criminal Code Offences
29 (49) Charged with various Highway Traffic Act Offences
0 (1) Drug Offences
2 (4) Cannabis Act offences
After the sixth week, the Festive R.I.D.E. team has charged a total of 92 motorists for drinking and driving offences. Last year at the same time, 106 had been charged. Another 77 motorists registered a WARN on a roadside screening device and had their driver’s licence suspended for 3 days. Last year at the same time, 102 drivers had their licence suspended for registering a WARN.
The R.I.D.E. team welcomed members of Whitby Council and DRPS Insp. Moote to the R.I.D.E. line to help get the message out “Don’t Drink and Drive, Don’t get High and Drive.” Community partners O.P.P. and MADD Durham also joined the team this past week.
A complete list of those charged with Impaired/Exceed will be posted on our website later this week at www.drps.ca under Hot Topics. Note: Under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, anyone charged with a drinking and driving criminal offence will have his or her driver’s licence suspended for 90 days and their vehicle impounded automatically for 7 days.