Festive RIDE Results - Week 4

Festive RIDE Results - Week Four

 

DRPS completed its fourth week of the 2024 Festive RIDE program, stopping more than 3,500 vehicles and charging 16 drivers with impaired driving offences.

 

The DRPS RIDE team conducted spot checks across the Region with the following totals (the numbers in brackets reflect 2023 fourth week totals for comparison):

 

3517 (1991) Vehicles stopped by RIDE
244   (120)   People given Roadside Breath Tests
23     (12)     People received “3 Day Suspensions” for registering a “WARN”
5       (5)       Novice Driver received a 3, 7 or 30  Licence Suspension
16     (16)     People were charged with Impaired Driving Offences
5       (1)       Other Criminal Code Charges
237   (162)   Charged with various Highway Traffic Act offences
2       (2)       Drug Offences

 

Members from the Durham Regional Police Service Board, Willie Woo and Mark Welch, joined the Chief and officers on the RIDE line to thank motorists for driving sober.

 

Week four of the RIDE campaign saw 16 impaired drivers taken off our roadways.  This week, the RIDE team arrested a G1 driver and their qualified driver for impaired driving offences.  The law requires qualified drivers to be fully licensed drivers and have a blood alcohol concentration less than 50 mg per 100 mL. We remind everyone, “if you see something, say something.”

 

Impaired driving is an emergency, please call 9-1-1 if you suspect an impaired driver.

 

A complete list of those charged with Impaired/Exceed is posted on under RIDE results.

 

Note: Under the Ontario Highway Traffic Act, anyone charged with a criminal impaired driving offence will have their driver’s licence suspended for 90 days and their vehicle impounded automatically for seven days.

 

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