(CENTRAL HURON, ON) – The first vehicle to enter a Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (R.I.D.E) checkpoint last night resulted in the arrest of a 22 year old male. driver. At 10:45 p.m. Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers were conducting a (R.I.D.E) program at the intersection of Sawmill Road and Old River Road just north of Bayfield when a GMC Jimmy entered the checkpoint.
Upon speaking with the driver officers noted he had been consuming alcohol. Further investigation revealed there were open containers of alcohol inside the vehicle.
The driver provided a sample of his breath into a roadside screening device and he registered a fail. He was arrested at the scene for Drive Motor Vehicle with Over 80 Milligrams of Alcohol and was subsequently transported to the Huron OPP Detachment for breath tests. At the detachment he provided two samples of his breath to a qualified Intoxilizer Technician and both samples were over the legal limit.
As a result, Thomas BRADLEY, 22, from Kincardine, has been charged with Drive Motor Vehicle – Over 80 Milligrams of Alcohol and Have Liquor in Open Container other than Licensed Premise. He has a court appearance scheduled for the Ontario Court of Justice – Goderich on June 23, 2014. He received an automatic 90 day driver’s licence suspension and his motor vehicle has been impounded for seven days.
A 19 year old female from Central Huron and a 25 year old male from Kincardine were also charged with “Have Liquor in Open Container other than Licensed Premiseâ€Â.