The Thunder Bay Police Service concluded its 2024 Festive RIDE campaign with nearly 30 impaired driving arrests, highlighting a growing trend of drug-impaired drivers.
The Thunder Bay Police Service completed a busy month of impaired driver enforcement efforts. Officers arrested approximately 27 impaired drivers through primary response and the 2024 Festive RIDE campaign, which launched on the weekend of November 30 and continued until December 31. The service held its last RIDE program of the campaign on New Year’s Eve.
Tom Armstrong, a constable with the Thunder Bay Police Service Traffic Unit, said the police saw a significant number of drug-impaired drivers and alcohol-impaired drivers over the course of the campaign. Of the 27 arrests, he said 16 were impaired by alcohol, eight were impaired by drugs and three refused breath samples. Over the course of the year, he added that these numbers add up to 91 drivers impaired by drugs and 100 that were a mixture of alcohol and refusal. Police charged a total of 191 people with impaired driving during 2024. “The last number of years, we’ve been sitting around that 200 number. So, I think we’re kind of maintaining that same trend. And I think, just worth noting that despite significant priority calls overall for the service, especially this month, we still allocated significant resources to impaired driving enforcement and it yield significant results,” said Armstrong. These statistics only include incidents on municipal roadways within the city of Thunder Bay and the municipality of Oliver Paipoonge. There were nearly as many drug-related charges as alcohol related charges, a trend Armstrong said is concerning. “We’re really looking at ramping up those enforcement efforts for drug-impaired drivers as well.” Armstrong said that the police also had a significant number of other noteworthy driving incidents over the month. “We saw a wide variety of offences, a wide variety of kind of concerning trends and it was a busy month overall,” said Armstrong. Incidents were particularly problematic for youth and young driver
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