by XPolice | Jan 9, 2020 | News
An 18-year-old Owen Sound man is one of the latest motorist charged with stunt driving – driving more than 50 km/h over the limit – by OPP. Jan. 4 at 12:43 p.m., OPP charged the speeding driver on Bruce Road 8, east of Allenford Road, South Bruce Peninsula. He was...
by XPolice | Jan 9, 2020 | Halton Region, News
Burlington OPP have stopped a driver in Oakville for driving 135 km/hr while flossing his teeth. The 58 year old Tesla driver had the vehicle on autopilot and was using both hands to floss his teeth. He was driving 135 km an hour. The driver was charged with careless...
by XPolice | Jan 8, 2020 | News, York Region
Following a guilty plea to multiple impaired driving offences, a 24-year-old man was sentenced to six years behind bars in connection with a 2018 multi-vehicle crash in King Township that claimed the life of a five-year-old girl. Emergency crews were called to the...
by XPolice | Jan 8, 2020 | News, Perth County
A Perth County OPP officer could smell alcohol coming from a vehicle in a roadside sobriety checkpoint near Listowel. The driver – 47-year-old Darren Fuller – insisted the odour was due to the empty beer cans and bottles on the floor in the backseat. The officer that...
by XPolice | Jan 7, 2020 | News, Provincial
New numbers from the Eastern Ontario OPP, show officers caught close to 100 suspected drunk drivers over the holiday season. The 2019 Festive RIDE Programs throughout December stopped 2289 cars on OPP-patrolled roads. 98 people were charged with impaired driving,...
by XPolice | Jan 7, 2020 | News, Peterborough County
A phone call to police from staff at a local fast food restaurant has led to the arrest of a 26-year-old North York, Ont. man for charges including impaired driving. On Jan. 4, 2020 at approximately 2:50 a.m. Peterborough police received a call from staff at a...