After four weeks, the Festive R.I.DE team has charged a total of 36 motorists for drinking/drug driving offences.
Another three motorists have registered a WARN on a roadside screening device and had their driver’s licence suspended for 3-days, said a DRPS statement.
DRPS completed its fourth week of the Festive R.I.D.E program, stopping 1,900 vehicles and charging 12 drivers with drinking/drug driving offences.
Durham Regional Officers conducted R.I.D.E. checks this week in Ajax, Pickering, Whitby, Oshawa, Brock, and Clarington with the following totals: (2019 Festive R.I.D.E. stats from Week Four are in brackets)
1,900 (1,573) Vehicles stopped by R.I.D.E.
23 (128) People given Roadside Breath Tests
3 (10) People received “3-Day Suspensions” for registering a “WARN”
0 (2) Novice Driver received a “3-Day Licence Suspension”
12 (22) People were charged with Drinking and Driving Offences
12 (31) Criminal Code Offences
67 (66) Charged with various Highway Traffic Act Offences
0 (0) Drug Offences
Police would like to remind motorists to be aware of the law while transporting cannabis in your motor vehicle. A driver cannot have cannabis in a motor vehicle when the seal of its original packaging is open and it’s within reach of the driver. Also, under the law, a motorist with a G1/G2 licence must have a zero blood alcohol content while driving.
If you observe an impaired driver, please call 9-1-1.
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.