3 charged with impaired driving in northern Ont. in 12 hours

Impaired drivers recently kept northern Ontario Provincial Police detachments busy – the James Bay detachments charged three people with impaired driving in less than 12 hours.

Impaired drivers recently kept northern Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachments busy – the James Bay detachments charged three people with impaired driving in less than 12 hours.

Shortly before 5 a.m. on Sept. 2, members of the detachment observed an ATV committing several Highway Traffic Act offences, police said in a news release.

Officers initiated a traffic stop on Gurney Road in Kapuskasing.

“It was determined that a driver had been consumed alcohol,” said police.

“The driver was arrested and transported to the Kapuskasing detachment for further testing.”

As a result, the 16-year-old driver from Kapuskasing has been charged with three impaired driving related offences, speeding, failing to stop at a red light, failing to wear a proper helmet, and not surrendering their licence. Also as a G1 class driver being unaccompanied by a qualified driver and driving at an unlawful hour.

Later that afternoon, shortly before 2:30 p.m., a member was on patrol when they were alerted by their vehicle’s automatic licence plate reader that the owner of a vehicle travelling on Brunetville Road was a suspended driver.