This past weekend South Okanagan Traffic Services with the assistance of citizens took many impaired drivers off of South Okanagan roads.

This included the following:

Penticton

– One Criminal Code Impaired Driving charge and One Refuse to Provide Breath Samples charge

Okanagan Falls

– Two Criminal Code Impaired Driving charges

                       – One Refuse to Provide Breath Samples charge

                       – One Drive While Over 80 mg% (alcohol) charge

                       – One Possession of Cocaine charge

                       – One 90 day Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP)

Oliver

– One 90 day IRP

          – One 3 day IRP

          – One Drive While Prohibited charge

Osoyoos

– One 90 day Administrative Driving Prohibition (alcohol)

              – One Drive While Prohibited charge

              – One 90 day IRP

              – Two 3 day IRP’s

              – One 24 Hour Driving Prohibition

Cawston

– One Criminal Code Impaired Driving charge

             – One Criminal Code Drive While Over 80 mg% charge

Princeton

– One 90 day IRP

One of the Impaired drivers had collided with a parked vehicle and a fence on their way to a liquor store to purchase alcohol.  This 50 year old female impaired driver was arrested leaving that Penticton liquor store in their pyjamas.  This occurred on Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m..

Another of the impaired drivers was reported by a citizen as an erratic driver driving in the oncoming lane.  This 56 year old female driver was located seated behind the steering wheel in a parked idling vehicle in Okanagan Falls. This occurred on Saturday night at 10:30 p.m..

Yet another impaired driver was observed swerving on Highway 97 in Okanagan Falls and travelling in the oncoming lane towards Oliver at a high rate of speed.  This 28 year old driver was almost three times the legal limit  for alcohol and was found to be in possession of cocaine.  This occurred Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m..

Another impaired 50 year old male driver in Cawston was also found to be an unlicenced driver.  This occurred on Sunday at 2:30 in the afternoon.

South Okanagan Traffic Services would like to thank the citizens that reported some of these impaired drivers.  Fortunately no one died on South Okanagan roads this past weekend.

This was just one weekend in the South Okanagan.