By CKDP Staff
On Saturday (Dec. 19) shortly before 2 p.m. officers were dispatched to a single vehicle accident on Hill Road in Ridgetown.
Chatham-Kent police said officers arrived to discover a ’98 red Ford pick up truck on its roof in a field with damage estimated at $5,000.
Police said the driver was being treated for minor injuries and it was determined that the 59-year old man had been drinking.
The man was arrested and provided breath samples for analysis, which resulted in a reading of more than twice the legal amount of alcohol in his system.
Subsequent to his arrest a canister of tear gas was seized.
As a result of this investigation the Orford Township man will face criminal charges of impaired driving and possession of a prohibited weapon.
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Brian Cleeve
Aaron Hall
Michael Cowtan
Jay Smith
CKDP Staff
Greg Hetherington
Marlee Robinson
Chris Prince
That’s 13 articles on ckdp about drunk drivers since August and that’s just those that were caught. I wonder just how many drunks there really are driving around on the Chatham-Kent roads.
Maybe ckdp should start publishing their names after they’ve been charged. When charges don’t work and MADD doesn’t work, maybe embarrassment will make a difference. Maybe when we start to see lists of these hapless drunks and their victims, their family members will start taking away their car keys.