RCMP release disturbing impaired driving stories
Posted December 5, 2013 4:49 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The stories may seem amusing, but Mounties say the tales of impaired driving in this province are down-right disturbing.
Counter Attack season is now in full swing.
Probably the most alarming story involves a man sitting in a car on fire, not realizing it’s on fire and fighting with officers trying to get him out of the burning car!
One woman who was speeding along Highway 99 in Squamish pulled up beside an officer, rolled down her window and stated that she was having trouble finding the highway that would take along the 99 in Squamish.
Corporal Robert McDonald says getting behind the wheel in that state is stupid and incomprehensible. “We just want to make sure that we stop it. That people understand that if you are drinking, do not drive.”
Sadly he says too many officers deal with stories like this every year.
In 2012, 56 people in BC were killed due to impaired driving.
He says thankfully officers got these drunks off our road before they killed themselves or someone else around them.
Other tales:
“Should have listened to his wife”
A traffic team was working on a roadblock on the Lougheed Hwy. A van pulled up with a male driver, who smelled of liquor.
Police administered an Approved Screening Device (ASD) test, and the driver blew a FAIL.
As the traffic officer was explaining the process to the driver, a woman in a taxi claiming to be his wife showed up.
However, the man was alone in his van, and had not made any calls while police were dealing with him.
The mystery was solved when the woman told the traffic officer she had been with her husband at a party. She then said to her husband, “I told you that you had drunk too much, and to take the taxi with me!”
“A warning didn’t do much”
A male driver pulled up to a roadblock, and was cocky and nonchalant about the check, despite having the odour of liquor on his breath.
Police administered an ASD test, and the driver blew a FAIL. The driver was then offered a second ASD test, and blew a second FAIL.
Upon learning about the FAIL results (seizing driver’s license, 90-day driving prohibition, vehicle impoundment) the driver became very irate, and let loose with a barrage of insults.
The last thing he said before getting in his taxi was that he was going to fight the IRP and win.
His reason… apparently last week he had also been drinking, but had only blown a WARN. As it transpired, he had been issued a three day driving prohibition just six days earlier by another member of the same Traffic team.
Across BC the RCMP will be out in full force at Counter Attack road checks this holiday season, looking for drivers under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
