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The incident took place just before 2 a.m., as police stopped a blue 2010 Hyundai after noticing the driver was travelling erratically. An officer’s foot was run over by the impaired driver as he tried to flee.
Statistics for 2023 that were released by Nova Scotia RCMP showed the force laid 830 charges of impaired driving by drugs or alcohol during the year, up from 802 in 2022 and 770 in 2021. Sullivan noted that as more officers receive training in detecting drug impairment, the number of charges for drug impaired driving will also go up, which will also bump up the statistics.
The news nationally is bad. Canada’s drunk driving deaths are still the highest across all developed countries. Sgt. Kerry Schmidt told CBC that the total number of impaired driving charges laid in 2023 were about 10,000, which is a 16 per cent increase compared to the year before.
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