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2012-07-30 at 07:46

Alleged impaired driver arrested, charged with fleeing scene of crash

By Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com
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A motor vehicle collision overnight Monday led to an impaired driving charge against a 21-year-old.

Thunder Bay police said they made the arrest after the accused fled on foot from a Simpson Street single-vehicle collision that allegedly saw the suspect lose control of his car and strike metal sidewalk bells lining the sidewalk.

The suspect, who was taken into custody, but not named by police, faces charges of impaired driving, driving with over 90 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood and failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

He is expected to appear in court in September.

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glug glug vroom vroom says:
Such a waste of a persons life getting this impared driving charge.

But it seems higher fines & or minimum jailtime sentences are needed to smarten the locals up before someone is killed!

Why cant people see that alcohol is just as bad as the so called "junkies" or "potheads" they complain about daily?

More ride programs are needed or atleast some more control of alcohol itself?

Just ban alcohol to solve the issue? ASAP!!!!
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7/30/2012 10:08:46 AM
she says:
How can you possibly say that alcohol is 'just as bad as Pot'. I have never heard of one person high on pot being agressive or speeding or crashing through town. MAybe crashing on the couch surrounded by chip and candy wrappers, thats about it.
7/30/2012 2:02:02 PM
Sui Generis says:
Then you never bothered to fact check it, just relied on your own biased opinion and assume that's fact. Impaired driving means driving in an altered mental state. That can happen both on alcohol OR pot, or other drugs, or medication. There are numerous studies regarding impairment and marijuana correlation. Google is your friend. Do some research before making false claims next time around.
7/30/2012 3:07:05 PM
she says:
so you are telling me to read bias studies on google and not have my own opinion.Im not making any false claims. I stated what I have come to see and hear for myslef during my lifetime. You need to get out more.and the word junkie to me means someone who has no money or car who uses needles. How can a junkie drive after they shoot up? dont they just fall asleep.IDK.
7/30/2012 4:18:42 PM
unionbay880 says:
So your opinion is that no one on pot has ever driven stoned, no junkie can afford a car and all junkies fall asleep after they shoot up? Opinion fail.
7/31/2012 5:35:20 AM
She says:
I never said no one on pot has driven stoned or junkies fall asleep after they shout up. Do you know what IDK means?
7/31/2012 12:14:17 PM
anarnosti says:
This seems to be a popular spot for drunk driving accidents.. my ex-stepdad crashed there as well when he was impaired.. only at that time there were no bells yet and he went through the building.. the bells came shortly after... wake up people... its not only your own life that you're risking but every person thats on the road/sidewalk.
7/30/2012 10:35:37 AM
oscarmyerweiner says:
Lucky it was only a bell and not a person. It's good they didn't get hurt themselves. I think they should create a "drinking and driving" coarse. Waste their time just as much as they wasted the tax payers dollars. Leave the jails for the drug dealers and killers, muggers and real criminals. Heavier fines for all impaired drivers, be it booze, pot, pills etc.
7/30/2012 10:51:45 AM
DazeofThunder says:
They don't see it for the same reason bicyclists are shunned and cars revered. This culture ignores the obvious. To use an analogy the cyclists would be pot and alcohol would be cars. Elders and baby boomers just refuse to acknowledge the killing nature of the vehicles involved. And since they control everything we are left with the minority making bad majority choices...
7/30/2012 11:11:25 AM
hadenough says:
You did see that the driver was 21 years old right? Am I missing your point in your agism rant? Maybe I'm too old to understand what you're babbling about.
7/30/2012 1:38:21 PM
passlake says:
I think I know what he's getting at with his analogy of cars/bike and pot/booze.

I am guessing he was suggesting at cars and booze being the actual greater of 2 evils (more deaths and injury with either as contributing factor), with the unfortunate fact that the lesser of the 2 evils are way less dangerous, yet still socially/legally/morally/whatever-you-want-to-call-it unacceptable.

and he's right. alcohol or vehicles BY THEMSELVES are more dangerous than cycling or pot use. statistics as far back as 1990 back up that fact.
7/30/2012 2:11:11 PM
hadenough says:
I've got no arguement with that analogy.
7/30/2012 3:15:20 PM
Dan Dan says:
Impaired Driving is only ONE of many dangerous driving behaviours, yet it is the one that gets the most press. Speeding is just as dangerous, if not more, and it is widespread in Thunder Bay.

This is complicated by the fact that drunk driving causing death involved huge jail terms, while dangerous driving causing death can result in a suspended sentence for a sober person.

It's well past time we starting equally punishing ALL bad driving, not just impaired driving.
7/30/2012 11:22:08 AM
jimmyboy says:
A real busy weekend for impaired drivers...seems each was trying to out do the others.
7/30/2012 11:44:44 AM
matt1981 says:
"Just ban alcohol to solve the issue? ASAP!!!!"

We saw how well that worked over 90 years ago. (It didn't). Education and awareness seems to be the best way to go. And the individual should be punished.

I have to agree about speeding in the city. And the worst offenders are those in pick up trucks. Probably because they are all NASCAR fans and they think that they are in a race. And don't forget how many pick up trucks don't even use their signal lights.
7/30/2012 12:20:09 PM
crazyforweed says:
Thats like saying ban smokes , which won't happen maybe put those lovely pictures on beer bottles and beer cases of WHAT HAPPENS when you drink and drive ,or when you spend your whole life consuming alcohol ..instead they show commercials of people having the time of their life drinking !
7/30/2012 1:45:34 PM
Mamma says:
Dan Dan is right speeding is just as dangerous in some situations even worse..... Been glad to see the police out of their cars with radar guns getting car after car for speeding! Especially the other afternoon when I dropped my son at daycare the police had a car for speeding when I came out he had another! These daycares are like school areas small children!!!!!!!!
Ride programs are necessary too!!!!
7/30/2012 2:04:18 PM
tbaykatrina says:
I don't believe in, nor do I want a 'nanny state', but neither do I want to be at the mercy of morons who don't have the capacity to regulate themselves. Something needs to change. Perhaps how we view our "rights" in this society. If we can regulate people who serve alcohol, shouldn't we also regulate those who consume it? Rather than assume you are entitled to drink because you reach a certain age, perhaps one needs to participate in an education program / testing to get a card to prove you are mature enough to consume alcohol. It's either that or I see limiters put in vehicles where one has to prove they are sober to drive (but that can be worked around we know). So what is the answer???
7/30/2012 2:26:57 PM
tsb says:
You don't believe in or want a 'nanny state', but then you propose.. a nanny state? Abolish a drinking age altogether. Europe does that and drinking and driving doesn't seem like as much of a problem over there.

BTW, those bells are called "bell bollards" (they're not real bells, just bell shaped as it's good at keeping cars off of people when they speed toward the sidewalk) and they've been getting hit more often in the past year than I remember. In fact, the city JUST replaced a few of them last week!
7/30/2012 7:33:36 PM
woof!! says:
This idiot was going so fast they actually went over the bell, up over a 2 foot concrete flower bed, scraping a newly planted tree, through the shrub bed and stopped atop the second 2 foot concrete bed smushing the flowers, along with totaling a sign and a metal garbage can. He actually pushed a 6" slab of concrete several inches forward.

I have a picture of the damage if the editor posts the email to send it to.
7/30/2012 5:07:12 PM
The Badger Mountain Hermit says:
Booze has been "sold" to our society. The government obscenely makes millions off both ends. The "nanny-state" is there to erode you. Everything you know about alcohol and dope are mostly lies.
7/31/2012 10:34:15 AM
CJ says:
They're an adult not a young offender. Publish their name so we can know who this loser is. Why protect criminals? They should have no rights.
7/31/2012 3:06:53 PM
xxx says:
quit whining every1!!
8/1/2012 6:37:45 PM
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