Wingham Free Press(MORRIS-TURNBERRY, ON) – On May 30, 2013 just before 11:00 p.m. a brown Grand Prix entered a Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere (R.I.D.E) checkpoint set up at the intersection of Brandon Road and Clyde Line. The officer spoke with the driver and detected the driver had been drinking alcohol. A roadside screening test was completed which […]
(MINTO TOWNSHIP, ON) On Tuesday June 4, 2013 at approximately 12:00pm the Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a call regarding a collision involving 3 vehicles in the construction area on Highway 89 between Concession 12 and County Rd. 6 in Minto Twp. Firefighters from the Minto Fire Department attended along with Paramedics from […]
(MAPLETON TOWNSHIP, ON) Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report about the pitching machine at the Drayton Fair Grounds in Mapleton Township being stolen. Sometime between May 25th 2013 and May 31st 2013, unknown suspects cut the fence to the batting cage and removed the machine. It is described as 3 feet high, […]
****UPDATE**** MOTOR VEHICLE COLLIDES WITH HORSE DRAWN VEHICLE – 10 PEOPLE INJURED (MINTO TWP, ON) On Thursday June 6, 2013 at approximately 12:15am officers from the Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) investigated a collision involving a horse drawn vehicle and a motor vehicle. A 2012 Volkswagon GTI was travelling north bound on Highway 9, […]
(HURON-KINLOSS TWP, ON) On June 5, 2013 at 12:03 pm, the South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police received a report of a 2 vehicle crash at the intersection of Highway 21 and Concession 6 East in Huron Township. Officers arrived to find that a Red Honda CRV was travelling South bound on Highway 21. The driver […]
(CENTRE WELLINGTON TOWNSHIP, ON) Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was called to a business located in Fergus, Centre Wellington Township for a theft related incident at 11:12am on June 3, 2013. The business Geo Solar, reported that sometime over the weekend of May 31st, 2013 and June 2nd, 2013, unknown person(s) stole two large […]
(MINTO TWP, ON) On Thursday June 6, 2013 at approximately 12:15am officers from the Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a report of a serious motor vehicle collision involving a horse drawn vehicle and a car on Highway 9 just south of County Rd. 2 in Minto Twp. Firefighters from the Clifford Fire […]
(WELLINGTON NORTH TOWNSHIP, ON) – On Tuesday June 4, 2013 at about 1:30am, a Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police officer (OPP) was conducting radar enforcement on Wellington County Road 109 west of Arthur. The officer observed a 2013 Kia travelling well above the posted speed limit. Police clocked the vehicle on radar at 150km/h in […]
(COUNTY OF WELLINGTON, ON) – In an effort to address the increased number of phone calls Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) have been receiving regarding car seats and to raise awareness of serious car seat errors observed during routine traffic stops, OPP and local partners are hosting two car seat information sessions. The pilot […]
(KINCARDINE, ON) On May 31, 2013 at 1:54 am, a South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer on patrol along Queen Street in Kincardine stopped a Blue Plymouth Neon. The officer found that the driver had been drinking alcohol. 32 year old Robert FOSTER of Kincardine has been charged with Operate over 80 milligrams. He […]