‘Not a good start to to 2023, folks,” Greater Sudbury Police Service said in a recent post to social media in which they cited the latest impaired driving statistics
Local drivers kicked off the new year on the wrong foot, with Greater Sudbury police laying charges against 23 impaired driving suspects in January.The bad start to the year follows a slight drop with last year’s impaired driving incidents total.
In 2021, there were a total of 338 impaired-driving incidents, including 158 involving drugs and 171 involving alcohol. There were nine people who refused to comply with a demand for testing. The city’s Traffic Management Unit conducted two Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere spot checks last weekend, during which they screened 436 drivers. Of these drivers, the following charges were laid: There’s an exemption in the Highway Traffic Act that allows people to use their phones to dial 911 in emergency situations, and Chief Paul Pedersen affirmed that suspected cases of impaired driving are, in fact, emergencies.
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