FORT FRANCES, Ont. – Three people are facing impaired driving charges following three separate traffic stops earlier this week.
In the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 10, Rainy River OPP were conducting multiple Festive RIDE checkpoints and came across a driver who was operating a vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration between 50 milligrams and 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.
This concentration was determined through the use of an Approved Screening Device.
As a result of the test, the driver was issued a three-day driver’s licence suspension.
The following morning, a provincial constable with the Rainy River OPP conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle on Highway 11/71 east of Emo.
When the constable spoke to the driver of the vehicle he smelled an odour of alcohol which led the constable to administer a roadside approved screening device.
The driver failed and as a result a 43-year-old was charged with operation of a motor vehicle with blood concentration above 80 milligrams.
The next evening OPP arrested a 33-year-old following a traffic stop.
The 33-year-old was charged with operation of a motor vehicle with blood alcohol concentration above 80 milligrams.
