Ontario Provincial Police in the region laid three impaired-related driving offences over the holiday weekend.
On Dec. 23 at 12:15 p.m., West Nipissing OPP officers were dispatched to a single-vehicle collision on Highway 144 in an unincorporated area north of the city.
No one was injured when the driver, a 29-year-old from Rayside-Balfour, took the ditch. Upon speaking with the driver, police said they determined he had been drinking.
The driver was charged with impaired operation with blood alcohol concentrain over 80. The vehicle was impounded for seven days and the driver received a 90-day Administrative Driver’s Licence Suspension. He has a court date of Jan. 11.
Later that same day, at 10:21 p.m., a driver from North Bay was nabbed at a RIDE check on Highway 17 in Sturgeon Falls. The 38-year-old driver faces two charges, operation while impaired and operation while impaired with a blood alcohol concentration over 80 mgs.
His licence was suspended for 90 days and his vehicle was impounded for seven days. He has a court date of Feb. 2 in West Nipissing.
And then on Christmas Day at 12:54 a.m., a 57-year-old Sudbury woman was arrested at a RIDE check on Front Street in Sturgeon Falls after police determined she was inebriated.
The woman is charged with impaired operation and over 80, and her licence was suspended for 90 days while her vehicle was impounded for seven days. She has a court date of Feb. 2 in West Nipissing.
