THUNDER BAY -- The city’s police force is celebrating another fatality-free Festive Ride.
The Thunder Bay Police Service conducts its Festive Ride program, which features increased Ride checkpoints throughout the city, over the holidays every year.
On Tuesday officials with the police service confirmed that they’ve had three Festive Ride seasons without recording an impaired driving-related fatality.
But the program results aren’t all good news.
Eighteen drivers were handed impaired-related charges, and another 10 drivers brought themselves into custody as a result of crashing their vehicles.
Those drivers face an on-the-spot 90-day suspension to driving. Their vehicles, if they were not demolished from the crash, are also impounded for seven days.
The 28 drivers charged during the Festive Ride program will appear before a judge in 2015.
