Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry Schmidt has results from their annual holiday blitz on the province’s roads.
The campaign stretched from November 21, 2024, to January 1, 2025. Drivers caught face a one-year licence suspension and hefty financial penalties under the Criminal Code. Sgt. Schmidt says too many cases have tragic results.
Schmidt adds the OPP issued 155 roadside Warn Range Suspensions to drivers who are making poor decisions.
Police in Ontario’s West Region charged nearly 300 people with impaired driving, and conducted 1,938 RIDE checks across 13 detachments, resulting in 292 impaired driving charges and 19 warn-range suspensions.
Compared to last year, there were fewer charges and suspensions, as the 2023/24 campaign had 353 impaired charges and 55 warn-range suspensions after 2,446 RIDE events.
Written by: M. Leblanc/L. Dickson