(Tweed, ON) – On January 13, 2016 at 8:10 p.m. members of Central Hastings O.P.P responded to a motor vehicle collision on Sulphide Road at Cozy Cove Lane in the Municipality of Tweed, after a pickup truck entered the ditch and struck a number of guard rails.
Officers arrived on scene and located the driver hiding in a snow bank nearby. As a result of the investigation, the driver 62 year old George WICKENS of Frankford, ON was arrested and charged with Impaired Operation of a Motor Vehicle and Driving With More Than 80mgs of Alcohol in Blood.
He received a 90-day Administrative Drivers Licence Suspension and his vehicle was impounded for 7 days. He will appear in Ontario Court of Justice – Belleville on February 4th, 2016.